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"Discussing the War in a Paris
Café
" from the
Illustrated London News
of 17 September 1870: A scene from the
Franco-Prussian War
. The
Napoleonic empire
had ended a few days before this when
Napoleon III
was captured in the
Battle of Sedan
and deposed by the
French government
soon thereafter. However, the proposed German peace treaty was rejected, and two days after this image was published, Paris came
under siege
.
Image credit: Frederick Barnard
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