3-039-242 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Late Events in Paris: captive insurgents of Belleville guarded in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, 1871. 'The prisoners taken alive were numbered by tens of thousands...[Our] Engraving represents those captured in the Belleville quarter, who were confined in the park of the Buttes Chaumont, with a guard of soldiers placed over each group of crouching disarmed wretches, occupying the spots assigned to them'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.