[mod.F. f. COMMUNE + -ARD depreciatory. (‘Nom donné par les adversaires’—Littré.)] An adherent of the Commune of Paris of 1871, or of the principles of communalism; a communalist. Also attrib.
1874. T. G. Bowles, Flotsam & Jetsam, 128. I remember a Communard leader.
1876. Times, 6 Nov., 9/3. The prosecution and punishment of a thousand Communards.
1889. Hamerton, French & Eng., Introd. p. xii., note. A Communist is a Socialist of a particular kind, who wants to have goods in common after the fashion of the early Christians. A Communard is a person who wishes for an extreme development of local government.
