 While clear that Communards set some of the fires, the reports of women participating in it was overly exaggerated at the time.Some women organised a feminist movement, following earlier attempts in 1789 and 1848.Thus, Nathalie Lemel, a socialist bookbinder, and Élisabeth Dmitrieff, a young Russian exile and member of the Russian section of the First International, created the on 11 April 1871.