G. A. Henty 
Woman of the Commune [PDF ebook] 
A Tale of Two Sieges of Paris

In the days leading up to the Franco-Prussian War of the late nineteenth century, the political and social climate of Paris shifted dramatically. English teenager Cuthbert Harrington has been stripped of his inheritance due to the malfeasance of his attorney and drifts toward Paris to pursue his education. Once there, he and a friend find themselves mired in very different circumstances than they had imagined.