# Bloody Week suppresses Paris Commune (1871)

URL: https://history-france.com/timeline/1871-bloody-week-suppresses-paris-commune
Location: Paris
Categories: main-event

Government troops retook Paris in intense street fighting and mass repression. Within the broader Third Republic period, The Third Republic survived war, the Commune, constitutional crises and fierce ideological conflict. It expanded mass schooling and empire, faced the Dreyfus Affair, fought World War I and entered the troubled interwar era. At this point in the timeline, the relevant governing authority is Adolphe Thiers (President of the French Republic). Bloody Week suppresses Paris Commune mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority. The event is positioned here so visitors can read it alongside changes in government, warfare, society, religion, culture and France’s wider international setting.

## Why it matters
Bloody Week suppresses Paris Commune mattered because collective action and political conflict altered the relationship between society and governing authority.

Ruler at the time: [Adolphe Thiers](https://history-france.com/rulers/adolphe-thiers)

## Sources
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