Paris under Siege: A Journal of the Events of 1870-1871 Kept by Contemporaries and Translated and Presented by Joanna Richardson (The Folio Society)

221 pp. Translated into English by Joanna Richardson. Includes 10 leaves of lithographic plates. This is not a political or military history. It is not a detailed narrative of the Franco-Prussian War, of the Siege of Paris and the Commune. ...a contemporary journal of events in Paris from the fall of the Second Empire on 4 September 1870, to the fall of the Commune on 28 May 1871.