Picture No | 10195741 |
Date | April- May 1871 |
Description | RUE ROYALE FIRES |
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Fires are started in parts of Paris, often by 'petroleuses' - women carrying cans of fuel. Firemen fight fires in the fashionable rue Royale, seen as symbolic of the old regime.
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Source | Engraving by an unnamed artist in the Illustrated London News |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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