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w formed, under the leaders p of lice chief Raoul Ri ult, atheistic, amoral, viciou The Commune confi ted Church pro rty, tu g churches into Red Clu On April 4 Ri ult arrested the Archbishop of P s and or a roundup of p t In May the mmune went back to the revolutio y len r, ouncing that it w the 15th Floreal, y 79. Arrests multiplied
On May 21 gove ment tr entered throu a m rde un­ guarded te. ey encounte d bl y fi ting at the rri d t up all through ri but the Ve es army was irr istible. The mmune bu ed large ts of ris, rtly r st te c r n rtly for reven . On the night y 24, Ri ult had h tag shot, including the Arch­ bishop and four other priest After a ut a week of fighting, the Com­ mune had to s ender, and the Ve lles army t k revenge in many killin . The w k w kno Se ne Sanglante, Bl y Week. The t t dead on th sides tw n twenty and twenty- ve tho nd
A provisional go ent was t up. Tw thir of the repre n ­ tives in the gove ment were in fa r of restoring the monarchy, but they were divided tween the li ral leanists, who favored the line of Louis Phi p , and the t st who favored the Count de Cham r who the ghtful king and the nd n of Charles X The two ctions worked out an a eement The Count de Cham rd uld offered the crown to le r the r t of his life; when he die since he had no chil­ dren, the Orleanist line would come in On to r 27, 1871 the crown was offered to the unt, who w ld have en ng Hen V of F nce.
The Count de Cham was not a wer-hun y man H he were to me ng, it w ld to nefit the ople by tu g Fr from li eralism to traditionalism As a gua nt that he would allowed to tum the country aro d and a sym l of dedi tion to the tholic France of ol the Count ann nced that he would not a ee to g unle the tricolor flag were a ndoned and the white and gold eur e-lis of tradi­ tional Fran r ored e i e therefore me fore the A mbly: the tricolor flag and a li ral public or the fleur e-lis and a traditional m chy. By one vote the li won, 35 352 The Third Repub c w pr ed, which pr eeded to enact anti atholic laws, and France never a in re ed to mo chy.
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In 1877 Ria a in attacked Turkey, this time defeating them An inde ndent Bul was eat but it w under the i luence of Ria