3-039-148 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Civil War in Paris: fugitive residents at the northern railway station, 1871. Civil conflict causing '...the hasty departure of great numbers of visitors and residents, quiet and respectable people, whom our Illustration shows at the railway station for going to Calais or Boulogne, yet obliged to submit to a jealous scrutiny before they start'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871