Bombing of Asnières

La Commune de Paris. Friday, April 14, 1871. Today beginning of the bombardment of Asnières by the Versailles artillery. The bombardment will continue until April 17. In the past few days General Ladislas Dombrowski in command of the National Guard of the Commune had snatched this town, a few kilometers northwest of Paris, from the hands of the army of Versailles.

In Paris the first assembly of the federation of artists at the amphitheater of the school of medicine. Gustave Courbet is elected president of this federation.

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