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EstablishedA council of 92 members was elected on 26 March 1871; the Commune had no president or mayor, worked through commissions, and combined executive and legislative functions.EstablishedDecrees included separating church and state, remitting siege-period rents, banning night work in bakeries, and allowing employees to run deserted enterprises with compensation to the owner; only a few were implemented in two months.DisputedThe number of Communards killed in the Bloody Week is disputed: figures of up to 20,000 have been questioned, and estimates now commonly run from about 10,000 to 15,000.DisputedInterpretations diverge: Marx's The Civil War in France called the Commune the working-class political form 'at last discovered', anarchists such as Bakunin read it as a rebellion against the state, and Victor Hugo criticised its conduct while urging amnesty.