The 147 Communards shot at the Communards' Wall remain the best-known symbol of the repression, but they represent only a fraction of the overall death toll. What order of magnitude do historians put on the total number of deaths across the whole Bloody Week?
The answer
While the 147 Communards shot at the Communards' Wall remain the best-known symbol, historians estimate the overall death toll of the Bloody Week at several thousand, with some estimates exceeding 10,000 victims, killed across Paris between 21 and 28 May 1871.
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