communard
- noun
- /ˈkɒmjʊnɑrd/
- Archaic
:
comunero
- During the Paris Commune of 1871, many communards fought for their revolutionary ideals.
Examples
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Take the case of Albert de Mun: "That former officer of the Versailles army, who opposed amnesty for the communards, hence seventeen thousand Communards died for five hundred ...
Academic text (1991) -
Take the case of Albert de Mun: "That former officer of the Versailles army, who opposed amnesty for the communards, hence seventeen thousand Communards died for five hundred ...
Academic text (1991) -
While Silvestre always claimed that his relations with the emperor had been purely personal and that the benefits he had received had come without political conditions attached, he nevertheless found himself in the firing line: he was told that the Communards had sent the police to his house to arrest him, and his residence on the quai du Louvre was barricaded and targeted.
Academic text (2006) -
It was the Hotel de Ville, the city hall of Paris, reconstructed nearly from the ground up following the catastrophic fire set by the Communards on May 24, 1871, that received the most lavish and costly painted and sculptural schemes of the campaign.
Academic text (1993) -
The communard spirit was evident as citizens gathered to discuss democracy and justice.
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Courageous communards played a crucial role in shaping the future of Paris during the tumultuous period.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Communard comes from the French commune, the name taken by the revolutionary Paris government in 1871, with the suffix -ard to mean a person. So a communard is a member or supporter of the Paris Commune.
