3-039-061 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Relief of Paris: dealers in provisions from St. Denis at the Prussian advanced post on the canal bridge, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. '...crowds of poor folk, costermongers, and private purchasers meeting the carts on their return from the market-gardeners near St. Denis, as they pass the advanced post of the German army on the canal bridge'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.