Lyon Commune
1870–1871 revolutionary movement in Lyon, France / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Commune (disambiguation).
The Lyon Commune was a short-lived revolutionary movement in Lyon, France, in 1870 and 1871 - republicans and activists from several components of the far-left of the time seized power in Lyon and established an autonomous government. The commune organized elections, but dissolved after the restoration of a republican "normality", which frustrated the most radical elements, who hoped for a different revolution. Radicals twice tried to regain power, without success.
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Commune de Lyon | |||||||||
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Commune of France | |||||||||
1870–1871 | |||||||||
Location of Lyon in France | |||||||||
Capital | Lyon | ||||||||
Government | Committee of Public Safety | ||||||||
• Type | Commune | ||||||||
History | |||||||||
• Established | September 4, 1870 | ||||||||
• Salvation Committee established | September 17, 1870 | ||||||||
• Second uprising begins | March 22, 1871 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | May 1, 1871 | ||||||||
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The Lyon events happened as part of a revolutionary wave in the aftermath of the collapse of the Second French Empire and culminating in the 1871 Paris Commune.