The Communards' Wall is a wall in the Père Lachaise Cemetery of Paris where, on 28 May 1871, 147 Communard rebels were executed by a French Army firing squad and buried in a common grave at the foot of the wall. The last of the Communards had entrenched themselves in the cemetery during the Paris Commune Revolt, and those captured with weapons in hand were summarily executed; 19 Communard officers who had been executed elsewhere were also buried in the mass grave. Into the 21st century, the Communards' Wall became a shrine for French leftists, who annually commemorate the casualties of the Paris Commune; several communist politicians, such as Maurice Thorez, are buried across from the Communards' Wall.