The Paris Commune

The Capital Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) is the latest, but the Paris Commune is history’s most famous example of liberated space.

Paris, 1871.

The city of lights; the city of love — Paris is most famous for being in flames. The Paris Commune burned so bright that upwards of thirty thousand Parisians died during the government siege of the city in La Semaine ensanglantei — the bloody week.