Besançon Commune
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The Besançon Commune (in french Commune de Besançon) was a short-lived revolutionary movement conceived in 1871, aiming at the setting of a local autonomous power based on Lyon and Paris experiences.[1] It originates from sociological changes of the city[2] and creation of unions.[3][4][5][6][1] The Franco-Prussian War, the fall of the Second Empire, and the advent of the Third Republic, precipitate events.[7][1] While many notables report an insurrectional context[8] and an armed support from Switzerland,[9][10][1] correspondences of James Guillaume and Mikhail Bakunin[11][12] attest to a confrontation prepared between the end of May and the beginning of June 1871.[1] But with the start of a large repression on May 21 until June 7, any attempt was compromised.[1] Despite the hope of a restart, the months following the idea of an insurrection is definitively abandoned mostly with extinction of the groups and activities called anarchists in 1875.[1]
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