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'An English butcher's, Boulevard Haussmann', 1871. The meat on sale is from animals, including elephant, from the Jardins des Plantes (Paris Zoo). During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871, Paris was under siege from September 1870 to late January 1871 and everything that was edible was consumed.