Communard’s Wall

The Communards’ Wall at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where 147 Commune soldiers along with another 19 officers were executed on May 28, 1871, during the Semaine sanglante, the suppression of the Paris Commune.
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  • Type: Memorial
  • Description: monument in Paris
  • Also known as: “Communards‘ Wall” and “Communards’ Wall”
  • Inscription: “AUX MORTS DE LA COMMUNE 21-28 mai 1871”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Père Lachaise Cemetery and Square Henri-Karcher.

Photo: Connie Ma, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The 20th arrondissement of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the , though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas. is situated 460 metres west of Communard’s Wall.

Park
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is a park.

Park
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is a park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Charonne quarter and 20th arrondissement.

Suburb
The is an area of the 20th arrondissement of named after a former municipality in the area, which was merged into the city of Paris in 1860 by Napoleon III and split between , the Père-Lachaise quarter and Saint-Fargeau quarter.

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The of lies to the east of the centre and represents an old working-class area now in rapid transformation. The main drawing card here for tourists is the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, though, for travellers who are interested in music and culture, this relatively gritty area is probably going to be one of your main night-crawling areas.

Neighborhood
Photo: Jean-François Gornet, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a neighborhood.

Communard’s Wall

Latitude
48.85968° or 48° 51′ 35″ north
Longitude
2.40008° or 2° 24′ 0″ east
Open location code
8FW4VC52+V2
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5220080010
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­memorial
Wiki­data ID
Q910923
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In Other Languages

From Arpitan to Ukrainian—“Communard’s Wall” goes by many names.
  • Arpitan: “Mur des Federés”
  • Asturian: “Muria de los Federaos”
  • Catalan: “Mur dels federats”
  • Chinese: “巴黎公社社员墙”
  • Czech: “Zeď komunardů”
  • Dutch: “Mur des Federes”
  • Dutch: “Mur des Fédérés”
  • French: “mur des Fédérés”
  • French: “Mur des Fédérés”
  • German: “Mur des Fédérés”
  • Persian: “دیوار کمونارها”
  • Russian: “Стена коммунаров”
  • Serbian: “Зид федералаца”
  • Slovenian: “mur des Fédérés”
  • Slovenian: “zid federatov”
  • Slovenian: “zid komunardov”
  • Spanish: “Muro de los Federados”
  • Ukrainian: “Стіна комунарів”

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