September 21, 2012 | Theatre,

PARIS COMMUNE TRIVIA

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1. The National Guard refused to fire on their fellow countrymen when they took the cannon and joined the Commune.

2. The separation of Church and State was one of the key reform measures of the Commune.

3. The Communards issued their own coin by taking over the Paris Mint.

4. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte III, the Emperor of the Second French Empire, was the last monarch of France.

5. Both women and children were very active in the origin and implementation of the Commune and, in fact, threw themselves between the cannon and the National Guard in Montmartre.

6. A female battalion from the National Guard defended the Place Blanche during the repression.

7. The red flag became a symbol of Communism as a result of its use by the Paris Commune.

8. Gaston Leroux was inspired to write Le Fantôme de l’Opéra after the discovery of a body from the Paris Commune buried in the Paris Opera House.

9. The musical Les Misérables is set during the Republican Insurrection in June 1832, not the Paris Commune.

10. The Archbishop of Paris was among the prominent figures executed by the Commune.

11. Prior to the Commune, France was at war with Prussia.

12. School teacher Louise Michel was known as the “Red Virgin of Montmarte.”

13. Anne Jaclard founded the newspaper Paris Commune.

14. The Commune implemented the end of night shifts for bakeries.

15. During the Commune, four celebratory concerts took place at Notre Dame Cathedral.

16. French author Honoré de Balzac was rumored to have briefly been a Communard.

17. Poet Arthur Rimbaud was appointed head of the Press Bureau of the Commune.

18. Author Emile Zola used the Paris Commune as a background setting for his novel, La Débâcle.

19. The Paris Commune lasted only 14 weeks.

20. Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir was nearly thrown into the Seine by Communards until he was recognized.

21. Impressionist painter Claude Monet was placed in charge of all the art museums in Paris during the Commune.

22. The Commune established their main headquarters at the Hôtel de Ville during the uprising.

23. Louis Rossel was elected President of the Commune despite the fact that he was imprisoned by the government.

24. The famed Tuileries Palace was reduced to ruins during the Commune.

25. The government of Adolphe Thiers, the President of the Republic, was located at Versailles during the Commune.

26. Karl Marx wrote the pamphlet The Civil War in France in 1871.

27. Vladimir Lenin was wrapped in the remains of a red and white flag preserved from the Commune at his funeral.

28. In March 1880, exiled French citizens in New York City organized a concert to commemorate the Commune.

29. The Soviet Union brought a ribbon from the Communard flag on their second manned spaceflight.

30. Napoleon III died in exile in England.