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Established in the Hôtel de Ville just after the storming of the Bastille, the Commune became insurrectionary, essentially refusing to take orders from the central French government, in the summer of 1792.
The first mayor was Jean Sylvain Bailly; he was succeeded in November 1791 by Pétion de Villeneuve, after Bailly's unpopular use of the National Guard , to disperse a riotous assembly in the Champ-de-Mars ( July 17, 1791).
On the night of August 9, 1792 a new revolutionary Commune took possession of the Hôtel de Ville; the next day insurgents assailed the Tuileries, where the royal family resided. During the ensuing constitutional crisis, the collapsing Legislative Assembly of France was heavily dependent on the Commune for the effective powerSociologists usually define power as the ability to impose one's will on others, even if those others resist in some way. By power is meant that opportunity existing within a social relationship which permits one to carry out one's own will even against r that allowed it to continue to function as a legislature.
The term Paris Commune more often refers to the Paris CommuneThe term Paris Commune originally referred to the government of Paris during the French Revolution. However, the term more commonly refers to the socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 26 to May 30, 1871. The Paris Commune of 1871 was ma of 1871Events January January 18 The member-states of the North German Confederation unite into a single nation-state known as the German Empire. The King of Prussia is declared the first German Emperor as Wilhelm I of Germany. January 28 France surrenders to en.