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The Burning of Paris: the rue Royale, 1871. Creator: Unknown.

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The Burning of Paris: the rue Royale, 1871. '...the insurgents, being undisturbed and feeling their case a hopeless one, fired the Tuileries, the Treasury, and the Rue Royale...There is no doubt whatever that these things were deliberately done by order of the Communist leaders; besides which many other fires were kindled in different parts of Paris by reckless men and women intent on revenge or plunder. The upper part of the Rue Royale, from the Place de la Madeleine to the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, was burnt on both sides. The fire here is shown looking down the street towards the Place de la Concorde. The firemen appear as they were employed, after the place was taken by the regular troops, in labouring with their pumps or spouts to extinguish the flames in the houses at the corners of the Rue St. Honoré and the Rue du Faubourg St. Honoré, which meet the Rue Royale at right angles'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM24A70_352

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Droits gérés

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51,5Mo (4,4Mo) / 42,3cm x 30,6cm / 4991 x 3610 (300dpi)

Mots clés

water building buildings female women woman people male group crowd crowds job man men square destruction arts country French France danger law Paris art guy dangerous smoke crime occupation burning fire flame flames British dramatic war hose location century Britain profession firefighter firefighters emergency services fireman firemen fire brigade newspapers press soldiers soldier print hoses extinguishing concept Place de la Concorde B&W arson Parisian engraved engraving peril 19th century black & white black and white B W Ile-de-France on fire civilian civilians nineteenth century The Print Collector 1870-1871 firefighting equipment Franco-Prussian War Illustrated London News Place de la Revolution Siege of Paris TGN wood engraving ILN Rue Royale street newspaper Unknown Parisians 19th-century The Illustrated London News