Later, they moved to Le Vésinet where they sat out the two months of the Commune, within hearing distance of the gunfire that resounded as government troops gradually crushed the uprising: "The cannons are rumbling with unbelievable violence", Bizet wrote to his mother-in-law on 12 May.
Máis tarde, trasladáronse a Le Vésinet, onde permaneceron os dous meses que durou a Comuna, oíndo os disparos que resoaban ao lonxe mentres gradualmente as tropas do goberno esmagaban o levantamento: «Os canóns retumban cunha violencia incrible», Bizet escribiu á súa sogra o 12 de maio.