Written and published in London in 1871, while the ashes were still warm, this is a running chronicle of the Paris Commune from its rising in March to its bloody suppression in May. Leighton records barricades, decrees and arrests, the pulling down of the Vendôme Column, raids on convents and the final fires, with sketches made on the spot.
A vivid contemporary account, hostile to the Communards, for readers of nineteenth-century France and its revolutions. Download the free EPUB.