Sujet

Waiting for coke at the gasworks, Barrière d'Italie, Paris, (sketch by balloon post), 1871. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Waiting for coke at the gasworks, Barrière d'Italie, Paris, (sketch by balloon post), 1871. The Franco-Prussian War. '...the want of fuel now experienced in the city, [is] almost as severe a privation, in winter, as that of proper food. A store of coke yet existing on the premises of the Gas Company, at the Barriere d'ltalie, is periodically distributed in small rations, by order of the Government, to the poorer classes of the people. Men, women, and children, assembling in great numbers at an early hour of the morning, with their baskets, bags, or scuttles, all too large for the slender portion to be allowed, may be seen awaiting the opening of the office doors; and their anxiety to share this dispensation can only be appreciated when we remember the intense cold of the Christmas week, and when the habits of the Parisians, less warmly clothed and, perhaps, less hardy than the English of the same rank in life, are considered also'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A70_087

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Droits gérés

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47,4Mo (4,5Mo) / 40,8cm x 29,1cm / 4817 x 3440 (300dpi)

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female women woman people male group crowd crowds man men queue waiting arts class country French France Paris art guy basket baskets British fuel war location century gesturing Britain impatient impatience newspapers press queuing print wartime concept B&W hand gesture coke engraved engraving Working Class hand Gestures 19th century black & white black and white B W working-class Ile-de-France nineteenth century shortage shortages The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News Siege of Paris social class TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News