Supporters hold the first commemoration at the Communards’ Wall

Government forces overcame the final organized barricades in eastern Paris. The defeat ended the Commune after seventy-two days, while arrests and summary executions continued.

Eugène Varlin, a labour organizer and member of the Commune, was recognized, beaten and shot at Montmartre without trial.

The remaining Communard garrison at Fort Vincennes surrendered. Government forces executed several officers, marking the end of the last fortified position held in the name of the Commune.

A military firing squad executed Louis Rossel, Théophile Ferré and Sergeant Pierre Bourgeois after courts-martial connected with the Commune.

The first group sentenced to deportation departed for the penal colony of New Caledonia. Deportation separated thousands of prisoners from their families and extended the repression far beyond Paris.

Parliament approved a complete amnesty for people prosecuted for participation in the Commune, enabling surviving prisoners and exiles to return and re-enter public life.