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1871 Times 7 Oct. 4/3 This gentleman Communard was arrested in the elegant apartments in the Boulevard Haussman belonging to a lady well known in the demi-monde.

1889 P. G. Hamerton French & Eng. Introd. 12 A Communist is a Socialist..who wants to have goods in common... A Communard is a person who wishes for an extreme development of local government.

1923 Bull. Metrop. Mus. Art 18 94/2 In the early 70's he was a bit of a Communard.

1968 S. Avineri Social & Polit. Thought Karl Marx viii. 242 Marx..calls communist not the commune but the unfolding of principles hidden in it and sometimes imperceptible to the Communards themselves.

1992 World of Interiors July 111/2 His involvement in the Paris Commune's violent activities led to his trial and deportation—along with hundreds of other communards.

1969 Guardian 23 Sept. 5/3 Neither police nor press were being allowed into the building at Edell Street because the communards learned a lesson from their eviction from 144 Piccadilly.

1985 W. Sheed Frank & Maisie ix. 211 Several couples seemed to consist of one enthusiast and one mostly along for the ride... Some communards missed the outside world too much, others may have wearied of the inside one.

2001 Kindred Spirit Summer 87/1 (advt.) Considering joining or setting up an intentional community? Get ‘Diggers and Dreamers’, it's the communard's bible.