Entitled: "The Tuileries After Its Destruction by the Communards" photographed by Hippolyte-Auguste Collard, 1871. After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Parisians revolted against the new government of Adolphe Thiers, who favored a return to royalty. The anti-establishment Government of the Commune of Paris was proclaimed on March 28, 1871, in opposition to Thiers, who had withdrawn to Versailles with the army. The clash led to weeks of fighting, the government's massacre of an estimated 20,000 people, and the burning, by the Communards, of the major public buildings of Paris, including the Tuileries Palace, the Palais Royal, and the H繫tel de Ville (city hall). The Paris Commune was a revolutionary and socialist government that briefly ruled Paris from March 18 until May 28, 1871. The killing of two French army generals by soldiers of the Commune's National Guard and the refusal of the Commune to accept the authority of the French government led to its harsh suppression by the regular French Army in "La Semaine sanglante" (The Bloody Week) beginning on May 21, 1871. Debates over the policies and outcome of the Commune had significant influence on the ideas of Karl Marx.