1-154-543 - Art Media-Private Collection/Heritage Images

'Le Chauffage', Siege of Paris, 1870-1871. Print from a series titled Paris Assiege showing people queueing up to obtain rationed coal and firewood for heating. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870. The city held out despite famine and great hardship until a bombardment with heavy siege guns led to its surrender on 28 January 1871. From a private collection.