Communards' Wall

The Communards’ Wall (French: Mur des Fédérés) at the Père Lachaise cemetery is where 147 Commune soldiers along with another 19 officers were executed on May 28, 1871, during the Semaine sanglante, the suppression of the Paris Commune.

The cemetery of the aristocracy in the 19th century, it also received the remains of famous people from previous eras.

As with other prisoners taken during the Commune, those captured with weapons in hand, numbering 147, were lined up and executed.

Those executed at the wall also included a group of Commune officers, who had been captured earlier at other locations, imprisoned in two army barracks nearby, tried by military tribunals, sentenced to death, and delivered to the cemetery for execution and burial.

[2] The number executed and buried at the wall there is not known exactly, but is estimated at 166 by historian Michele Audin.