Monument to the victims of the revolutions

Description

The 18th of March 1871, parisian citizens revolted against the French government in what would be known as the [Paris Commune](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_Commune), a radical-socialist revolutionnary movement. This revolt was supressed during the "Bloody Week", starting on 21 May 1871. On the 27th of May, the last fighters of the Commune entrenched themselves in the Père Lachaise cemetery, their canons firing their lasts shots from within the cemetery. The army summoned to suppress the Commune, after figthing the Communards between the graves, managed to take control of the area during the afternoon. The 147 surviving Communards were executed against a wall on the east side of the cemetery, their bodies dropped in a pauper's grave, later joined by hundreds of others. In 1909, on the other side of the cemetery, this sculpture ("Monument aux victimes des révolutions") was created by **Paul Moreau-Vauthier** using the stones of the wall used during the execution of those 147 Communards.