The Paris Commune. Thursday, May 18. There are three main events today. The National Assembly, seated in Versailles, ratifies the Treaty of Frankfurt, which had ended the Franco-Prussian war with severe territorial and economic losses for France. In the image, Otto von Bismarck, on the left, with Favre and Thiers, seated, at the peace treaty. In Paris, the Committee of Public Safety orders the closure of ten newspapers considered to be opponents of the Paris Commune. The Commune's education commission "considers, in terms of education, that women's work is equal to that of men."
