The Paris Commune. Saturday, April 29, 1871. Today six thousand Freemason Brothers, belonging to fifty-five lodges, met at the Carrousel and then went to the Hôtel de Ville (the Paris City Hall) where they were welcomed by representatives of the Commune. The Freemasons tried and tried again to find a way out and reconciliation between insurgent Paris and the government of Versailles. The latter, however, rejected any mediation or agreement with Paris and the Commune, preferring the path of civil war with the intention of resolving the revolt militarily, whatever the cost. A good number of Freemasons, disgusted by Thiers' intransigence, joined the Commune and took up arms alongside the Federates. Meanwhile, the fighting near the village of Moulineaux and close to the Issy cemetery is terrible.
