3-039-238 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Fighting in Paris: explosion in the Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysées, 1871. 'The explosion of the cartridge manufactory belonging to the Communist army, in the Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysées...[It] killed nearly 200 workpeople and others, wounded or maimed a larger number, and destroyed or damaged many of the houses in the neighbourhood. Bullets from the exploding cartridges, and fragments of shells, wounded many persons at a distance. The explosion was followed by a conflagration, which raged for some time'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.