3-028-291 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Disturbances in Paris: the barricade at Belleville, 1870. 'M. Flourens...ordered the mob that accompanied him to upset two omnibuses in order to make a barricade. At the end of the Rue de Paris-Belleville a barricade was made with an omnibus and three hackney-carriages. An officier de paix, with his sergents-de-ville, rushed at the barricade and took it by storm. He received a serious wound in the left breast from a bayonet fixed on the end of a stick. At the same time a sergent-de-ville was fired at point-blank. The revolver was aimed at his breast; but the ball stuck in the coat, and the man was not wounded. The sergents-de-ville turned to receive another troop of insurgents coming from the faubourg. Then it was that the Garde Municipale appeared, and swept the Rue de Belleville. The rioters who had constructed the barricade were armed with revolvers, sticks, and iron bars. They fled in every direction'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.