See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

COMMUNE (Med. See also:

• LAT

Lat. communia, Lat. communis, See also:

• COMMON

common)  , in its most See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general sense, a See also:

• GROUP

group of persons acting together for purposes of self-See also:

• GOVERNMENT
• GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government, especially in towns . (See See also:

• BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf. Ger. Burg, Fr. bor, bore, bourg)
• BOROUGH [BURROUGH, BURROWE, BORROWS], STEVEN (1525–1584)

BOROUGH, and See also:

• COMMUNE (Med. Lat. communia, Lat. communis, common)
• COMMUNE, MEDIEVAL

COMMUNE, See also:

• MEDIEVAL

MEDIEVAL, below.) " Commune " (Fr. commune, Ital. comune, Ger . Gemeinde, &c.) is now the See also:

• TERM

term generally applied to the smallest administrative See also:

• DIVISION (from Lat. dividere, to break up into parts, separate)

division in many See also:

• EUROPEAN

European countries . (See the sections dealing with the See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of these countries under their several headings.) " The Commune" is the name given to the See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period of the See also:

• HISTORY

history of See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris from See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March 18 to May 28, 1871, during which the commune of Paris attempted to set up its authority against the See also:

• NATIONAL

National See also:

• ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

Assembly at See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles . It was a See also:

• POLITICAL

political See also:

• MOVEMENT

movement, intended to replace the centralized national organization by one based on a federation of communes . Hence the " communists " were also called " federalists." It had nothing to do with the social theories of See also:

• COMMUNISM

Communism (q.v.) .