Des canons! Encore des canons!! Toujours des canons!!!' by Auguste Bry, Siege of Paris, Franco-Prussian War, December 1870 (1872). A French soldier talking to his comrades. After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III, the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870. The city held out despite famine, disease and cold until a bombardment with heavy siege guns led to its surrender on 28 January 1871. From a private collection.

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