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Gavin Bowd

Gavin Bowd teaches French at St Andrews University. He is the author of The Last Communard: Adrien Lejeune, the Unexpected Life of a Revolutionary (Verso, 2016).

The Last Communard

Adrien Lejeune was the last Communard to pass away in 1942. His life became the subject of myth and legend – and a symbol of the Parisian workers who fought to establish a radical democracy in their city.