3-039-048 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The ruin around Paris: home!, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. A family whose home has been wrecked. A child eats food from the floor while the adults despair of their plight. '...the roofless wreck of what was once a comfortable house, purchased or built with the savings of a frugal and industrious life, perhaps endeared to their hearts by memories of domestic affection, of parents who died there, of children who were born there; and now, this cherished property, which they hoped to leave to a son or daughter, has become the spoil of destructive war'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.