Scenes of the Late War in France: ruins of the public library at Strasbourg, 1871. '...a memorial of the bombardment of Strasbourg, the ruins of the noble Public Library, which was destroyed, with all its printed books and manuscripts, by the fire of German siege batteries. A subscription has been raised in Germany to restore the building'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.
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