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

Author Alfred d'Aunay French
1871
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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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Barracks Post, Place de la Bastille; Canal Tunnel and July Column
  • Artist: Alphonse J. Liébert (French, 1827–1913)
  • Author: Alfred d'Aunay (French)
  • Date: 1871
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: Images approx.: 19 x 25 cm (7 1/2 x 9 13/16 in.), or the reverse
    Mounts: 32.8 x 41.3 cm (12 15/16 x 16 1/4 in.), or the reverse
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Joyce F. Menschel Photography Library Fund, 2007
  • Object Number: 2007.454.1.27
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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