== Paris Commune == 

 I think the author(s) of this introduction have made a good job of describing, concisely, a very complex and contoversial episode. Here, however, are some further suggestions. 
 The illustrations... I have never known the photograph to be referred to as an execution of Communards; usually it is described as the shooting of Generals Lecomte and Thomas. However, there is no good evidence that the generals were shot together (see Jellinkek and others) and, more to the point, the "photograph" is generally accepted as a fake, or, more politely, a "reconstruction". (See Dayot.) It is interesting as one of the earlier examples of photographic faking for political ends, but that's not what we need it for here. 
 The fine map (I saw an original in the British Library map room several years ago) is the best we have to show the progress of the Versaillese army, broadly from the west of Paris to the eastern poorer districts, but perhaps it rather pre-empts the fuller account of La Semaine sanglante which I believe is linked to from this introductory page? 
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 On the text. It is true that Blanqui was elected to the Commune: but in view of his immense influence on the political thought and strategy of the period, would it be as well to mention that he was elected in his absence, having been arrested on the 17th March, and held in custody throughout the Commune, which was thus robbed of his potential leading role? 
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 Not to be niggly, but the point about the decree on the municipal pawnshops was not so much that they should stop selling off pawned items that had run out of time, but that they should begin actually to return craftsmen's tools and similar, and thus make it possible for carpenters, masons and others to return to work. (Could this not be said in a short parenthesis?) 
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 I would like to think that there was a "remarkable cooperation between different revolutionists" - but couldn't this phrase bear thinking about? The divisions (over, for example, the creation of a Committee of Public Safety) were bitter and have been thought to have led to a fatal weakness in the final  phases of the Commune. Would it be an idea to point, rather, to a truly remarkable feature of the Commune: namely, that divisions of opinion between electors and their delegates, could be, and sometimes were, thrashed out at short notice in local meetings?  
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 Best wishes for the development of an interesting topic. 
 Fourscore