The sex worker Cora Pearl gained celebrity status in this city for her lavish lifestyle and many affairs with this city’s royalty. Charles Marville photographed a project in this city that was partly sponsored by the Pereire (“peh-RAIR”) brothers. The Polish noble Jarosław Dąbrowski (“YAR-oh-swoff dom-BROFF-skee”) helped lead a government in this city, during which a woman who helped design the black flag of anarchism earned the moniker the “red virgin.” That government in this city was crushed in the Bloody Week by forces loyal to Adolphe Thiers, after which many prisoners were deported to New Caledonia. Streets were possibly widened in this city to make it harder to erect barricades during a renovation completed by Baron Haussmann. For 10 points, a proto-communist commune was established in what capital of the Second French Empire? ■END■
ANSWER: Paris
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