Ah! Que l'on est fier d'etre Francais', 1871. Doesn't it make one proud to be French?, laments a caricature of Napoleon I, whose statue was toppled from its column in the Place de la Vendome by the Paris Communards on 8 May 1871. From a private collection.

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