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Pillaging the first vegetable carts at the gates of Paris, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

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Pillaging the first vegetable carts at the gates of Paris, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. The market-gardeners' carts, bringing their first loads of potatoes, cabbages, and other vegetables to Paris, by leave of the armistice, were in some instances pillaged by a few disorderly people. This was done the more easily when there was a block and stoppage of the crowded vehicles in the narrow pass between the earthen ramparts at the city gates. M. Jules Pelcoq, our Artist in Paris, contributes a sketch of such an incident, in front of the gate on the road to St. Denis, where the space is narrowed by fortifications on each side, earthworks, palisades, and chevaux-de-frise to resist an assault; beyond this we see a loopholed wall, and the drawbridge let down over the moat. The plunderers have seized the horse's reins, in spite of the driver, and climb upon the cart, throwing down sacks of potatoes, which are carried off by women and others'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM24A70_168

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Droits gérés

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27,9Mo (2,1Mo) / 30,6cm x 22,9cm / 3615 x 2700 (300dpi)

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transport transportation food female carrying women woman people male child children group crowd crowds man men hunger vegetables vegetable arts country French France Paris art guy basket baskets British potato supply cart carts war hungry location century arrival Britain newspapers press print potatoes sacks sack supplies concept arriving B&W arrive engraved engraving pillaging road Transport 19th century black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France civilian civilians nineteenth century shortage shortages The Print Collector 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN newspaper Unknown 19th-century The Illustrated London News Jules Pelcoq Pelcoq Jules