Editing Paris Commune (section)

===26 May: Capture of Place de la Bastille; more executions===
On the afternoon of 26 May, after six hours of heavy fighting, the regular army captured the [[Place de la Bastille]]. The National Guard still held parts of the 3rd Arrondissement, from the [[Carreau du Temple]] to the [[Arts et Métiers ParisTech|Arts-et-Metiers]], and the National Guard still had artillery at their [[strongpoint]]s at the Buttes-Chaumont and Père-Lachaise, from which they continued to bombard the regular army forces along the [[Canal Saint-Martin]].{{sfn|Milza|2009a|p=410}}

A contingent of several dozen national guardsmen led by Antoine Clavier, a commissaire, and Emile Gois, a colonel of the National Guard, arrived at La Roquette prison and demanded, at gunpoint, the remaining hostages there: ten priests, thirty-five policemen and gendarmes, and two civilians. They took them first to the city hall of the 20th arrondissement; the Commune leader of that district refused to allow his city hall to be used as a place of execution. Clavier and Gois took them instead to Rue Haxo. The procession of hostages was joined by a large and furious crowd of national guardsmen and civilians who insulted, spat upon, and struck the hostages. Arriving at an open yard, they were lined up against a wall and [[Massacre in the Rue Haxo|shot in groups of ten]]. National guardsmen in the crowd opened fire along with the firing squad. The hostages were shot from all directions, then beaten with rifle butts and stabbed with bayonets.{{sfn|Milza|2009a|pp=411–412}} According to [[Prosper-Olivier Lissagaray]], a defender of the Commune, a total of 63 people were executed by the Commune during the bloody week.{{sfn|Lissagaray|2000|p=383}}