Monument to the victims of the revolutions

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The 18th of March 1871 saw Parisian citizens rise up against their government in a radical-socialist revolution known as the Paris Commune, a movement that would be brutally suppressed in what became known as "Bloody Week", starting on May 21st, 1871. On May 27th, the last holdouts of the Commune dug in at Père Lachaise cemetery, their cannons firing their final shots from within its walls. The army sent to crush the Commune clashed with the Communards between the graves before taking control of the area later that afternoon. In the end, 147 surviving members of the Commune were executed against a wall on the east side of the cemetery and hastily buried in a pauper's grave, their bodies later joined by hundreds more. In 1909, a monument was erected on the opposite side of the cemetery, "Monument aux victimes des révolutions", created by Paul Moreau-Vauthier using stones from the very wall where those 147 Communards had met their end.