2-618-720 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Outside one of the Paris provision stores in the days when a siege of the city was feared, c1914. In September 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, Paris found itself on the front line; it was spared by the French and British victory at the First Battle of the Marne. From 'The Manchester Guardian: History of the War', Vol. I.-1914-15., 1915.