1. The Paris Commune

2. Political Tensions in The Second Empire
Supporters: finance capitalists, state functionaries, and bourgeois property owners of western Paris who were well satisfied with Haussmann’s works

3. Opposition: Bourgeoisie Republicanism
Different segments of the bourgeoisie , such as property owners, industrialists, shop keepers
liberty and equality in the market
political liberty, freedom of expression, and representative government

4. Opposition: Working Class Republicanism
Social concerns
The economic recession
Strikes and street demonstrations

6. The War Against Prussia
Military Defeats during the summer of 1870
September 1870, the republic was proclaimed, Adolphe Thiers became the first president
Paris under a siege, until January 28, 1871
Preliminary Peace, February 1871: Alsace and Lorraine, symbolic occupation of Paris, huge war indemnity

7. March 1871
March 18: Withdrawal of military and government personnel from Paris
Parisians took over all the abandoned administrative apparatus
Elections on March 26. The proclaimation of the Commune on March 28.

8. The Elections of 26 March 1871

9. Some Policies of the Commune
Limits on Salary and the right to recall the representatives
Moratorium on rent payments and debt-collections
Requisition abandoned workshops and dwellings
Improve working conditions

10. Principal Points of Communard Resistance

11. The Disastrous End of The Commune

12. How did the urban transformation project undertaken by Georges Haussmann socially and geographically divide Paris? (5 points)
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