3-039-235 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Burning of Paris: fall of houses in the rue de Rivoli, 1871. '...the insurgents, being undisturbed and feeling their case a hopeless one, fired the Tuileries, the Treasury, and the Rue Royale...[View showing] the fall of the front wall of the Ministry of Finance, in the Rue de Rivoli, opposite the side wall and railing of the Tuileries gardens. This building fell at eleven o'clock on Thursday, after burning many hours'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.