Communards

At the first commemoration of the Commune, in March 1878, we surely were not two hundred.

But two years later the amnesty for the Commune was voted, and the working population of Paris was in the streets to greet the returning Communards.

It flocked by the thousand to cheer them at the meetings, and the Socialist movement took a sudden expansion, carrying with it the Radicals.

The time had not yet come for that revival, however, and one night, in Paris 1878, Costa and a French comrade were arrested.