« Le 18 mars 1871, le peuple de Paris se soulevait contre un pouvoir généralement détesté et méprisé, et proclamait la ville de Paris indépendante, libre, s’appartenant à elle-même. »
Pyotr Alekseyevich Kropotkin, prince, Russian anarchist, and political philosopher, greatly influenced movements throughout the world and maintained that cooperation, not competition, the means, bettered the human condition.
Introduction: "On March 18, 1871, the people of Paris rose against a despised and detested government, and proclaimed the city independent, free, belonging to itself..."