Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)

An eyewitness chronicle recounts an urban insurrection and the seventy-three-day siege, pairing on-the-spot sketches, portraits, and reportage with a day-by-day narrative of occupations, clashes, bombardments, and the shifting authorities. It traces political maneuvers, municipal decrees, and factional tensions alongside accounts of public life under siege, requisitions, refugee movements, and the relations between fighters and civilians. The book records the destruction of monuments and buildings, fires, reprisals, mass arrests and executions, and improvised measures such as makeshift tribunals and military fortifications. Appendices collect chronological notes, memoirs, proclamations, casualty and damage lists, and illustrative plates that document both events and personalities.