Cheering popular members of the National Assembly in the streets at Bordeaux, 1871. Franco-Prussian War: '.... the scene in the Place de la Comédie, on the evening of the 15th [February], when old Victor Hugo and Louis Blanc were carried on men's shoulders, with vociferous cheering, to the opposite cafe, and there spoke a few words to the mob'. From "Illustrated London News", 1871.

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