Picture No | 10219144 |
Date | 1871 |
Description | Paris after the fall of the Commune 1871 |
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Dead bodies and general destruction, with the city burning in the background, at the end of the Paris Commune, May 1871. When the Commune collapsed Versailles Government troops embarked on an eight-day path of destruction and revenge through the city, killing up to 30,000 Communards.
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Source | Illustrated London News. 1871. p 564-5. |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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