3-039-199 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

French Siege of Paris: armistice at Neuilly - people leaving their homes to go into the city, 1871. 'The siege of revolted Paris by the army of the French Assembly at Versailles still affords the subjects of our Artist's sketches engraved for this publication. One of them represents the scene at Neuilly during the brief armistice, when the inhabitants of that suburban village, which is situated on the right bank of the Seine, just beyond the Arc de Triomphe and outside the Porte Maillot, were allowed to quit their dwellings and remove their families into Paris. They have been forced to leave Neuilly by a peremptory order from the Communist dictators'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.