The Paris Commune took over control of Paris. ... Every citizen was required to carry an identity card issued by his local commune, called Certificates of Good Citizenship. ... The Revolutionary Communes had committees that watched everyone in the neighborhood and special passes were needed to travel from one city to another. ... The purge, the commune, the color red as a symbol of statism, even the political terms Left, Right, and Center came to us from this period. ...

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During the Era of Bonaparte III, Businessmen who were considered of the Third-Estate started enjoying more privileges than they were enjoying before, France became the only power in Europe with universal male suffrage in which all males regardless of their status had the right to vote. ... Napoleon III also started another project to his advantage, which was a mortgage bank called the Credit-Foncier which aided the development of the agricultural sector. ...

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