3-039-152 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The ruins round Paris: barracks, Fort Vanves, 1871. Engraving of a sketch '...made immediately after the end of the Prussian siege, when these positions had just been abandoned by the French troops engaged in the defence of Paris against the foreign enemy, and before they were occupied by the Red Republican or Communist forces'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.