** INTRODUCTION

*** To learn more about the Commune:

** TIMELINE OF THE CIVIL WAR IN FRANCE

*** 1870

*** 1871

** JULES VALLÈS

*** PARIS, FREE CITY

*** THE ELECTION

*** OUR PEOPLE

*** THE DEAD

*** THE PEOPLE OF BELLEVILLE

** DEBATE IN THE COMMUNE ON THE HOSTAGES AND THE COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY

*** DECLARATION

**** Session of May 17, 1871

**** The Paris Commune

** INQUIRY ON THE COMMUNE

*** HENRI ROCHEFORT[29]

*** PASCHAL GROUSSET[30] Member of the Commune, during the Commune, delegate for external relations, currently deputy

*** ÉDOUARD VAILLANT[31] Member of the Commune, currently deputy

*** M. PINDY[32] Member of the Commune

*** M. DEREURE[33] Cobbler

*** JEAN ALLEMANE[34] Editor-in-chief of the Parti Ouvrier

*** JEAN GRAVE[35] Editor of Les Temps Nouveaux, who took no part in the Commune but whose opinion seemed of interest to us, the opinion of a revolutionary of today on the revolutionaries of the past.

*** LOUISE MICHEL[36]

*** JEAN-BAPTISTE CLÉMENT[37] Member of the Commune

*** GASTON DA COSTA Former chief of cabinet of the Committee of Public Safety, former assistant prosecutor of the Commune, currently reader in a major bookstore, author of the grammar book adopted by the city of Paris for its schools

*** MAXIME VUILLAUME At the time editor of the Père Duchêne, currently editor of the Radical

*** ELISÉE RECLUS[41]

*** A REBEL FROM LYON

*** P-O LISSAGARAY[42] M. Lissagaray wrote The History of the Commune of 1871 in six hundred thoroughly documented pages. There was thus no call for a long interview. We first asked him for some anecdotes.

*** ALPHONSE HUMBERT[43] At the time editor of Père Duchêne, since then president of the Paris Municipal Council and currently deputy

*** G. LEFRANÇAIS[44] Member of the Commune

*** M. BRUNEL[45] Currently professor at the Dartmouth Naval School

*** LÉO MEILLET[46] Member of the Commune, currently a professor in Edinburgh

*** NADAR

*** M. VICTOR JACLARD Chief of the Seventeenth Legion

*** GEORGES PILOTELL Director of the School Beaux-Arts and special commissar of the Commune

*** M. LOUIS LUCIPIA Municipal councilor of Paris

*** M. CHAMPY Member of the Commune, currently silversmith, worker representative on the labor relations board

*** M. CHAUVIÈRE Currently deputy

*** ALEXANDER THOMPSON Currently editor of The Clarion of London. He was eight at the time of the Commune

*** J. MARTELET Member of the Commune

*** MADAME N.

*** GENERAL DE GALLIFET

** ABOUT MITCHELL ABIDOR