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Following the insurrection of March 18, 1871, which sparked off the Paris Commune, France found itself in a situation of civil war, on the one hand, the government led by Adolphe Thiers, who had fled to Versailles, where the National Assembly also sat in support of him, and on the other the Paris Commune, which ruled Paris alone, [7] despite attempts by insurrectionary communes in the provinces.
The Tuileries Palace (French: Palais des Tuileries, IPA: [palɛ de tɥilʁi]) was a royal and imperial palace in Paris which stood on the right bank of the Seine, directly in the west-front of the Louvre Palace. It was the Parisian residence of most French monarchs, from Henry IV to Napoleon III, until it was burned by the Paris Commune in 1871.
The guardsmen led by Paul Brunel, one of the original leaders of the Commune, took cans of oil and set fire to buildings near the rue Royale and the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Following the example set by Brunel, guardsmen set fire to dozens of other buildings on rue Saint-Florentin, rue de Rivoli, rue du Bac, rue de Lille, and other streets.
The buildings set on fire by the Commune, besides the Hôtel de Ville and Tuileries Palace, included the Palais de Justice (which was also damaged on the outside by artillery fire from the French Army) the Ministry of Finance, the Cour des Comptes, the Palais de la Légion d'Honneur, the Gobelins Manufactory, the Palais d'Orsay. and the ...
The Old Summer Palace, also known as Yuanmingyuan (traditional Chinese: 圓明園; simplified Chinese: 圆明园; pinyin: Yuánmíng Yuán; lit. 'Gardens of Perfect Brightness') or Yuanmingyuan Park, [1] originally called the Imperial Gardens (traditional Chinese: 御園; simplified Chinese: 御园; pinyin: Yù Yuán), and sometimes called the Winter Palace, [2] [3] was a complex of palaces ...
The buildings destroyed at the end of the Commune were burned by the soldiers of the Commune, who proudly claimed credit for it afterwards. [2] The Commune soldiers, led by Paul Brunel, one of the original leaders of the Commune, took cans of oil and set fire to the Tuileries Palace, and buildings near the Rue Royale and the Rue du Faubourg ...
Old Summer Palace destruction, 18–21 October 1861; Museum Boymans fire, 1864; Paris Commune, 18 March-28 May 1871 Hôtel de Ville fire, May 1871; Tuileries Palace fire, 23 May 1871; Holker Hall fire, 1871 [4] Great Boston Fire of 1872; Bath House fire, 31 January 1873; Pantechnicon warehouse fire, London, 13–14 February 1874
Most of the collections of the National Museum of Brazil were destroyed in a 2018 fire. June 15 – The Glasgow School of Art main building, nearing the end of restoration after the fire in 2014, was badly damaged in another fire that destroyed the interior of the adjoining O2 ABC music venue. [288] [289] June 28 – Gikomba fire.