3-043-859 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Ruins of Paris: the Theatre of the Porte St. Martin, 1871. The last of the Paris Commune: '...ruins of public buildings, destroyed by the fury of the Communist faction...on the Boulevard du Temple, was the wreck of a popular theatre, that of the Porte St. Martin, which had become a prey to the flames; the stage lay open to view from the street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.