3-039-075 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Germans in Paris: the line of demarcation, French and Prussian sentries, rue du Colisée, 1871. Franco-Prussian War. 'The approaches to the Place de la Concorde from the streets on its eastern side, which traverse the heart of Paris, as well as that from the southern quarter of Paris, by the bridge which crosses the Seine nearly opposite the Palais du Corps Legislatif, and the northern outlets from the Place de la Concorde, beyond the line of the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore, were closed by barricades and double lines of French and Prussian sentries...[our Illustration shows the barrier]...at the corner of the Rue du Colisée'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.