2-715-252 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Council of war at Versailles, 1870, (1936). 'Kriegsrat in Versailles, 1870'. Prussian politicians and army officers Otto von Bismarck, Albrecht, Graf von Roon, and Helmuth von Moltke hold a meeting at Versailles during the Siege of Paris. The capture of the city by Prussian forces led to French defeat in the Franco-Prussian War. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]