Barracks Post, Place de la Bastille; Canal Tunnel and July Column

Alphonse J. Liébert French
 Author Alfred d'Aunay French

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In the final days of the Commune, those resisting the national forces pushed burning barges into the tunnel of the Canal Saint-Martin and burned the military post that stood at the edge of the Place de la Bastille, a post that had been burned in the revolutions of 1830 and 1848 and again in 1851.

Barracks Post, Place de la Bastille; Canal Tunnel and July Column, Alphonse J. Liébert (French, 1827–1913), Albumen silver print from glass negative

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