The Burning of the Hôtel de Ville, 24 May 1871
Léon Sabatier · 1873
Why it's great
The great Paris city hall, the Hôtel de Ville, burns on May 24, 1871, during the last week of the Paris Commune, the radical government of Paris. Léon Sabatier painted the fires in 1873.
🏛️ Part of history
The Franco-Prussian War & the Paris Commune (1870–1871) — The great Paris city hall, the Hôtel de Ville, burns on May 24, 1871, during the last week of the Paris Commune, the radical government of Paris.
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Léon Sabatier was a French painter and lithographer born in Paris in 1800. He traveled widely, made views of cities and landscapes and recorded the burning of Paris in 1871. He died in Paris in 1887.
