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Communards' Wall

The Communards' Wall (French Mur des Fédérés) is a memorial in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in Paris, France.

Against this wall, 147 communards, the leaders of the Paris Commune were shot on May 28, 1871 after the fall of the commune.

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