Lyon Commune
| Commune de Lyon | |||||||||
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| 1870–1871 | |||||||||
Location of Lyon in France | |||||||||
| Capital | Lyon | ||||||||
| Government | Committee of Public Safety (Lyon) | ||||||||
| • Type | Local revolutionary provisional government | ||||||||
| History | |||||||||
• Established | 4 September 1870 | ||||||||
• Salvation Committee established | 17 September 1870 | ||||||||
• Second uprising begins | 22 March 1871 | ||||||||
• Disestablished | 1 May 1871 | ||||||||
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The Lyon Commune (French: Commune de Lyon) was a short-lived revolutionary movement in Lyon, France, in 1870–1871. Republicans and activists from several components of the far-left of the time seized power in Lyon and established an autonomous government. The commune organized elections, but dissolved after the restoration of a republican "normality", which frustrated the most radical elements, who hoped for a different revolution. Radicals twice tried to regain power, without success.
The Lyon events happened in the context of a revolutionary wave of series of similar uprisings in most major French cities in the aftermath of the collapse of the Second French Empire, culminating in the 1871 Paris Commune.