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Journey Through Time

46. The Paris Commune: France’s Bloodiest Revolution (Ep 1)

Journey Through Time

Goalhanger

History

4.3595 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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What was the Paris Commune of 1871? How was the first German Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, trying to radically reshape the map of Europe? How did the resulting Franco-Prussian war set the scene in Paris for one of the most radical political experiments of the nineteenth century? Join Sarah Churchwell and David Olusoga as they look at the days leading up to The Paris Commune, the working class revolution that shook the world. Social Producer: Emma Jackson, Harry Balden Producer: Alice Horrell Head of History: Dom Johnson Exec Producer: Tony Pastor Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Human nature shrinks in horror from the deeds that have been done in Paris. The crimes of the insurgents have surpassed the most gloomy forebodings

1:26.6

of what would be accomplished

1:28.3

under the red flag. The burning of Paris was diabolical, the shooting of hostages, a deed without name.

1:35.3

But it seems as if we were destined to forget the work of these maddened savages in the spectacle of the vengeance reeked upon them.

1:43.3

The wholesale executions inflicted by the Versailles

1:46.8

soldiery, the triumph, the glee, the ribaldry of the party of order, sicken the soul. That was from

1:53.7

the London Times on the 29th of May 1871, and what they are reporting on is the brief life

1:59.5

and the bloody end of the Paris Commune of 1871.

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I'm David Aldoushoga, and welcome to Journey Through Time.

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