As French troops gained ground and the Paris Commune appeared to be nearly defeated, the insurrectionist government carried out more than 100 executions.

Source: https://www.ncregister.com/cna/five-french-priests-martyred-in-anti-catholic-uprising-of-1871-beatified-in-paris

The French capital is emerging from the trauma of the siege of Paris that marked defeat in the Franco-Prussian war, the subsequent collapse of the Second Empire and the bloodshed of the Paris Commune insurrection.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/dec/31/paris-impressionism-musee-dorsay-1874-exhibition-avant-garde-art