French prisoners at the Orleans railway station, 1871. The Franco-Prussian War: '...the unfortunate French prisoners of war, huddled together in the Orleans Railway station, awaiting their departure to the destined place of their dreary detention till the end of the war. They were ill-fed and ill-clad, and had suffered terribly from cold and fatigue'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
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