John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches French and Modern European History. He received Yale’s Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002. His many books include Dynamite Club: How A Café Bombing Ignited the Age of Modern Terror (2009), Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (2005), The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002), A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance (1996), The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier (1991) and The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851 (Yale, 1978).

‘This blow-by-blow account of the rise and fall of 1871 Paris Commune is, at times, almost too painful to read.’ - Gordon Parsons, Morning Star

John Merriman is Charles Seymour Professor of History at Yale University, where he teaches French and Modern European History. He received Yale’s Harwood F. Byrnes/Richard B. Sewall Teaching Prize in 2000, and was awarded a Docteur Honoris Causa in France in 2002. His many books include Dynamite Club: How A Café Bombing Ignited the Age of Modern Terror (2009), Police Stories: Making the French State, 1815-1851 (2005), The Stones of Balazuc: A French Village in Time (2002), A History of Modern Europe since the Renaissance (1996), The Margins of City Life: Explorations on the French Urban Frontier (1991) and The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851 (Yale, 1978).

‘This blow-by-blow account of the rise and fall of 1871 Paris Commune is, at times, almost too painful to read.’ - Gordon Parsons, Morning Star