This series offers a critical evaluation of the publications made in the perspective of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the Paris Commune (1871). This study is intentionally very fragmented as it has been reduced to seven titles, what's more very unevenly. This commemorative moment is essentially punctuated by two books, as the occasion has been seized in France to launch historiographical examination and revision of these events. The first is a revised and greatly expanded publication of the proceedings of a symposium held in Narbonne in 2011, which attempted to track research in progress or to be undertaken on the subject. The second, resulting from an Accreditation to Direct Research from a historian newly elected university professor, is comparable to a model of application of global history, connected to the event constituted by the Paris Commune. Living research cannot be reduced to its resulting works, however seminal they may be: local (Toulouse, Dijon, etc.) and social studies (workers' societies, etc.), biographical approaches to great activists as well as to more obscure people, notably actors of the movement, should be taken into account and usefully clarify or qualify the overall interpretation proposals.
