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Updated Friday, 28May2021-01: 43

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On a day like today 150 years ago the revolution of the Commune ended.

It ended up in a butcher shop known as Bloody Week.

In the fighting there were about

five thousand dead.

The retreating comuneros executed a hundred hostages, including the Archbishop of Paris.

The winners even shot with a machine gun.

It all ended here, on a wall of the

Père Lachaise

cemetery

, a

cemetery for the illustrious deceased, in front of this Wall of the Federated States, today sunny and lonely.

Then wall before which

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