The Paris Commune. Tuesday, May 2, 1871. The political and professional oath for public employees is abolished. The Versailles troops ordered the fort of Issy to surrender, receiving the response that the defenders of the Commune would rather blow it up than hand it over. In the evening at Asnières there was an attack by the Versailles troops, from eight in the evening until eleven in the morning. The attack was repelled by the Paris National Guard.





