3-028-407 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Funeral of Victor Noir: the people cheering the National Guard in the Champs Élysées, [Paris], 1870. On 11 January 1870, Noir, a journalist for the "Marseillaise" newspaper, was shot and killed by Prince Pierre Bonaparte, a cousin of the Emperor Napoleon III. View of '...the scene in the Champs Élysées, on the western side of the Place de la Concorde, where the National Guard were heartily cheered by the assembled citizens for their appearance in the cause of peace and good order...it had been feared that some breach of the peace, leading to a sanguinary conflict, would have attended the proposed demonstration. The father and brother of the deceased, Messrs. Salmon, refused, however, to let this mournful ceremony be converted into an exhibition of political spite, or an exciting appeal to the feelings of the populace...There was a vast concourse of people along the road, and in front of the house in the Passage Massena, at Neuilly, where the deceased had lived, and from which his coffin was to be carried to the cemetery'. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.