Editing Paris Commune (section)

==== Novels ====
* ''{{lang|fr|[[Contes du lundi]]}}'' is a collection of novels written by [[Alphonse Daudet]], published in 1873, set during the Franco-Prussian war and the Paris Commune.
* [[Jules Vallès]], editor of ''{{lang|fr|[[Le Cri du Peuple]]}}'', wrote a trilogy ''{{lang|fr|Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant, Le Bachelier, L'insurgé}}'', between 1878 and 1880, the complete novels being published only in 1886, after his death.
* [[Émile Zola]]'s 1892 novel ''{{lang|fr|[[La Débâcle]]}}'' is set against the background of the Franco-Prussian War, the Battle of Sedan and the Paris Commune.
* British writer [[Arnold Bennett]]'s 1908 novel ''[[The Old Wives' Tale]]'', is in part set in Paris during the Commune.
* [[Guy Endore]]'s 1933 horror novel ''[[The Werewolf of Paris]]'' is set during the Paris Commune and contrasts the savagery of the werewolf with the savagery of {{lang|fr|La [[Semaine Sanglante]]}}.
* French writer [[Jean Vautrin]]'s 1998 novel ''{{lang|fr|Le Cri du Peuple}}'' deals with the rise and fall of the Commune. The [[Prix Goncourt]]-winning novel is an account of the tumultuous events of 1871, told in [[Free indirect speech|free indirect style]] from the points of view of a police officer and a Communard whose lives are intertwined by the murder of a child and love for an Italian woman called Miss Pecci. The novel begins with the discovery of the corpse of a woman dumped in the Seine and the subsequent investigation in which the two main protagonists, Grondin and Tarpagnan, are involved. The title is drawn from the eponymous Communard newspaper, ''{{lang|fr|Le Cri du Peuple}}'', edited by [[Jules Vallès]]. The book itself is supposedly his account. Painter Gustave Courbet also makes an appearance.
* In ''[[The Prague Cemetery]]'', Italian author [[Umberto Eco]] sets chapter 17 against the background of the Paris Commune.
* ''The Queen of the Night'' by [[Alexander Chee]] (2016) depicts the survival of fictional opera singer Lilliet Berne during the siege of Paris. The novel's heroine also interacts with several notable figures of the day, including George Sand and the Empress Eugénie de Montijo.
* Several popular British and American novelists of the late 19th century depicted the Commune as a tyranny against which Anglo-Americans and their aristocratic French allies heroically pitted themselves.<ref name="ab">Albert Boime, ''Olin Levi Warner's Defense of the Paris Commune'', Archives of American Art Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3/4 (1989), (pp. 4, 13)</ref> Among the most well-known of these anti-Commune novels are ''Woman of the Commune'' (1895, AKA ''A Girl of the Commune'') by [[G. A. Henty]] and in the same year, ''The Red Republic: A Romance of the Commune'' by [[Robert W. Chambers]].<ref name="ab" />
* In ''[[Marx Returns]]'' by the British writer and filmmaker [[Jason Barker]], the Commune provides the historical context to Karl Marx's revolutionary struggles, and is depicted "as a symbol of an unfinished political project."<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 September 2018 |title=Marx as Flawed, Manic, and One of Us: a Review of Marx Returns |url=http://politicsslashletters.org/marx-as-flawed-manic-and-one-of-us-a-review-of-marx-returns/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181205103243/http://politicsslashletters.org/marx-as-flawed-manic-and-one-of-us-a-review-of-marx-returns/ |archive-date=5 December 2018 |access-date=4 December 2018}}</ref>