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==The Suppression of the Communards==
[[File:1184px-Commune_de_Paris_barricade_Place_Blanche.jpg|thumbnail|365px|The barricades barricade on Blanche Place Blanchein Paris, 1871]]
After the French government agreed to a peace treaty with the Germans, the war between it and the Communards was inevitable. The new French government, under Adolphe Thiers, decided to crush the Communards and their movement. With secret German, help, who were still occupying territory around France, they despatched a large military force to Paris. <ref>Cobain, p. 218.</ref> When the Communards refused to hand over some cannon over to the French army, this was to provide the French army with the excuse it needed to crush the National Guard and all those who supported the Paris Commune.
