Sanglante Semaine
Bloody Week may refer to: * ''Semaine sanglante'', a weeklong battle at the end of the 1871 Paris Commune * Sanglante semaine (Lyon), ''Sanglante semaine'' (Lyon), the suppression of the Second Canut revolt in Lyon, France, in 1834 * ''Berliner Blutwoche'', the suppression of a strike in Berlin in March 1919 * Bloody Week (Argentina), a series of riots and massacres in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in January 1919 * Bloody Week (Germany), the suppression of Berlin's Spartacist uprising in January 1919 * Köpenick's week of bloodshed, a week of arrests, torture, and killings by the German ''Sturmabteilung'' in June 1933 {{dab ...
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Semaine Sanglante
The ''semaine sanglante'' ("") was a weeklong battle in Paris from 21 to 28 May 1871, during which the French Army recaptured the city from the Paris Commune. This was the final battle of the Paris Commune. Following the Treaty of Frankfurt and France's loss in the Franco-Prussian War, on March 18 the new French government under Prime Minister Adolphe Thiers attempted to remove a large number of cannon from a park in Montmartre, to keep them out of the hands of the more radical soldiers of the Paris National Guard. In the confrontation that followed, two French generals were seized and executed by the National Guard. Thiers, the army commander Patrice MacMahon and the French government hurriedly left the city, and established their headquarters in Versailles, and prepared plans to recapture the city. The Paris Commune made an unsuccessful attack on Versailles under the leadership of Louis Charles Delescluze. Between May 8 and May 20, French forces had retaken the territory su ...
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