Editing Communards (section)

{{short description|Members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 Paris Commune}}
{{About|those associated with the Paris Commune|the uncapitalized term (for a commune member in general)|commune (intentional community)|the band|The Communards|a staff cook|brigade de cuisine}}
[[File:Barricade Voltaire Lenoir Commune Paris 1871.jpg|thumb|Communards (National Guards) at [[Boulevard Voltaire]]]]
[[Image:La Commune by Georges Pilotell.jpg|right|thumb|"The Commune arrested by [[Ignorance]] and [[Reactionary|Reaction]]"]]
[[File:Cadavres Soldats Federes Commune Paris 1871.jpg|thumb|Executed Communards ([[National Guard (France)|National Guards]])]]
[[File:Paris 1871 - communards.jpg|right|thumb|Communards executed in 1871]]
[[File:Disderi 2.jpg|thumb|right|The corpses of Parisian Communards]]

The '''Communards''' ({{IPA|fr|kɔmynaʁ|lang}}) were members and supporters of the short-lived 1871 [[Paris Commune]] formed in the wake of the French defeat in the [[Franco-Prussian War]]. After the suppression of the Commune by the French Army in May 1871, 43,000 Communards were taken prisoner, and 6,500 to 7,500 fled abroad.<ref name="Milza, 2009a, pp. 431–432">Milza, 2009a, pp. 431–432</ref> The number of Communard soldiers killed in combat or executed afterwards during the week has long been disputed—[[Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray]] put the number at 20,000, while estimates by more recent historians put the probable number between 10,000 and 15,000.<ref>Audin, Michele, ''La Semaine Sanglante, Mai 1871, Legendes et Conmptes'', Libertalia Publishers (2021) (in French)</ref> 7,500 were jailed or deported under arrangements which continued until a general [[amnesty]] during the 1880s; this action by [[Adolphe Thiers]] forestalled the [[proto-communist]] movement in the [[French Third Republic]] (1871–1940).