Communards au Père Lachaise

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This guide will help you discover the graves of the Communards in the Père Lachaise cemetery. Use the on-board map to find the location of the graves. For those who want to know more about the history of the Commune, a brief historical overview is also included. All texts are also presented in audio format.
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Paris Commune in 1871, the Association of Friends and Friends of the Commune is publishing a first tour dedicated to the revolutionary events that have marked the history of the City of Lights and the labor movement.
The Père Lachaise cemetery is one of the most emblematic places in the history of the Paris Commune: here take place the last fights of the bloody week, as evidenced by the impacts of the bullets visible on the tomb of Charles Nodier, as well as those of the Federated Wall, sections of which have been transposed into the monument to the victims of the revolutions. Many Communards were killed within the cemetery and are buried in mass graves hastily dug by troops from Versailles.
It was in Père Lachaise that over the years many Communards, who had survived the repression, chose to be buried. Nearly 50 Communard graves have been identified in the cemetery. Among them are Auguste Blanqui, Léo Frankel, Jules Joffrin, Paul Lafargue (with his wife, Eléonore Marx), Charles Longuet and Jules Vallès. For each of the buried communards, there is a brief notice as well as a link to more complete biographies.
Every year, around May 28, the "Montée au Mur" is held, the traditional commemoration of the Paris Commune in which all those who claim to be part of the work of the Commune participate.