Paris under the Commune / The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)

by John Leighton

[HOUSE DURING DEMOLITION—][AFTER ITS SACK]

[PORTRAIT OF COURNET], PREFECT OF POLICE

[PORTRAIT OF ARTHUR ARNOULD], COMMISSIONER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

[THE SEINE: FOUNDERED GUN-BOATS]—PORTE MAILLOT, DESOLATION AND DESTRUCTION

[BARRICADE OF THE RUE CASTIGLIONE FROM THE PLACE VENDÔME]

[PALACE OF THE TUILERIES]

[PORTRAIT OF RAZOUA], GOVERNOR OF THE MILITARY SCHOOL

[CAFÉ LIFE UNDER THE COMMUNE]—A SLIGHT INTERRUPTION—PLAY-BILLS AND BURNT-OFFERINGS—“SPECTACLES DE PARIS”

[PLACE DE LA CONCORDE]—STATUES OF LILLE AND STRASBOURG

[FIRE AND WATER]—THE EFFECT OF FIRE ON THE FOUNTAINS OF THE PLACE DE LA CONCORDE AND THE CHÂTEAU D’EAU—HIRONDELLES DE PARIS