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Artist
- Name:
- Férat, Jules
- Dates:
- 1829-1906
- Country:
- France
Illustration
- Subject:
- Buildings & monuments
- Technique:
- Wood engraving
- Engraver:
- Daudenarde, Louis (aka Amédée Daudenarde)
- Format:
- Portrait (taller)
- Source:
- Old Book Illustrations
Book
- Title:
- Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71
- Author(s):
- Claretie, Jules
- Publisher:
- Paris: le journal l'Éclipse, 1871
Description
Bombardment of Strasbourg in the night of August 24, 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War.
The caption reads in the original French: Bombardement de Strasbourg. — La cathédrale et ses abords, dans la nuit du 24 août.
Histoire de la révolution de 1870-71 was first published as a series of fascicles by L’Éclipse, a weekly newspaper owned by François Polo. Polo published the text in book format some time later at Librairie Polo, which he also founded.
Keywords: 1870s, 19th century, black & white, cityscape, Europe, fire, France, Franco-Prussian War, night, war
