communard

• “His studies were cut short by the traumatic events of the Franco-Prussian War and its aftermath, and he was one of the thousands of communard refugees who fled to London in 1871.”

  Archive 2009-06-01

• “Babette, master chef and communard, has been taken in by two pious Scandinavian spinsters after being forced to leave France because of her radical political activity.”

  Moral Fiction

• “He is a nobleman of ancient lineage, and at the same time a Parisian communard.”

  A Raw Youth

• “Inside each of us, the noble wild sow struggles with the communard.”

  Hard to be a god

• “But neither was he a communard, a comrade any longer.”

  Hard to be a god

• “And while everyone around cheers for the sow, the communard is all alone.”

  Hard to be a god

• “One communard added that fighting was not the only possible strategy with the jocks; they could also be talked to, perhaps even persuaded because, unlike the cops, "they're like us"; I thought this a shrewd point.”

  An Exchange on Columbia

• “Manet they could stand, even Claude Monet; but Cézanne -- communard and anarchist he must be (so said the wise ones in official circles), for he was such a villainous painter!”

  Promenades of an Impressionist

• “Called a _communard_ in 1874, Cézanne was saluted with the title of anarchist in 1904, when his vogue had begun; these titles being a species of official nomenclature for all rebels.”

  Promenades of an Impressionist

• “The communard, Tanguy, must have liked the way he blended, unforegrounded, yet retained”

  CounterPunch

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