Entitled: "Colonne Vend繫me" photographed by Franck, 1871. On May 16, 1871, a group of Communards led by the painter Gustave Courbet pulled down the Vend繫me Column. In Franck's photograph its shattered remains litter the Place Vend繫me. Modeled on the ancient Column of Trajan in Rome, the Vend繫me Column was built by Napoleon I in the first decade of the 19th century as a glorification of the victorious French soldiers who defeated the Russian-Austrian alliance at the Battle of Austerlitz; the seventy-six battle-scene bas-reliefs that spiral up the shaft were cast from the bronze of 250 captured Russian cannons. Louis-Philippe crowned the column with a statue of Napoleon in 1833, and Napoleon III replaced it thirty years later with another of Napoleon in Roman costume. 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.