City of Hope: The Paris Commune in Photographs

By Shaun C. Grenan

On March 18, 1871, the National Guard of Paris led an uprising of the working classes in Paris against the government of France and what they felt was the crushing burden of being at the bottom of 19th-century society, known as the Paris Commune. The Garde Nationale were soon joined by tens of thousands of men, women, and children of Paris, marching and singing beneath the red flag of the Commune. They were hoping for a new Parisian society in which they were no longer an underclass and in which their voices were heard. The Commune elected representatives of the people from the people, and attempted to establish a new social order among the rubble of the Second Empire after the surrender of France to Germany at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. These photographs show this hope in the faces and eyes of those citizens.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F5MSDVSN
• ISBN13: 9798280426030
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 116 Pages
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.3" x 8.5"