Execution by firing squad of supporters of Paris Commune, Edouard Manet, 1871 print In a street of Paris near a blockade, during the Frans-Prussian War in 1871, three men, supporters of Paris Commune, are shot dead. The lively lines through different applications of the chalk on the stone make the impression of a work made on the spot. Paris . violent death, being killed; being mishandled and maltreated; seeking death