April 12, 2024
VERY RARE 1871 PARIS COMMUNE ILLUSTRATED FINE PRINTS FIRST SOCIALIST COMMUNIST
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VERY RARE 1871 PARIS COMMUNE ILLUSTRATED FINE PRINTS FIRST SOCIALIST COMMUNISTDescription:FROM 1871, a RARE and unusually illustrated history classic. Paris Under the Commune, Or, The 73 Days of the Second Siege. With Numerous Illustrations, some tinted red. By John Leighton, FSA. Published in London by Bradbury, Evans & Co. 8x5 inches, 442 pages. Remarkable illustrations, many of which fold. 8x5 inches, bound in brown cloth, gilt titles. An old blindstamp that appears to read Bulsworth Library. This is an exceptionally rare item, the only copy we have seen. The Paris Commune was a radical socialist and revolutionary government that ruled Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. Following the defeat of Emperor Napoleon III in September 1870, the French Second Empire swiftly collapsed. In its stead rose a Third Republic at war with Prussia, who subjected Paris to a brutal four-month siege. A hotbed of working-class radicalism, during this time France's capital was primarily defended not by the regular French Army, but by the often politicized and radical troops of National Guard. In February 1871 Adolphe Thiers, the new chief executive of the French national government, signed an armistice with Prussia that disarmed the Army but not the National Guard.The killing of two French army generals by soldiers of the Commune's National Guard and
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