The Paris Commune (French: La Commune de Paris), a government that briefly rules Paris from 18 March (more formally from 26 March) to 28 May 1871, has been variously described as either Anarchist or Socialist in tenor, depending on the ideology of the commentator.In a formal sense the Paris Commune is simply the local authority (council of a town or district — French "commune") which exercises power in Paris for two months in the spring of 1871.
But the conditions in which it is formed, its controversial decrees and tortured end make it one of the more important political episodes of the time.
