Images Dated 10th September 2018

Gustave Flourens released from prison by revolutionaries

The release of Gustave Florens (1838-1871), the French Revolutionary leader, by some of his followers, Mazas, France, 1871. This was an early sign of the socialist fervour brewing in Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War. Date: March 1871

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TWO AMONG THE REEDS 1879

A couple moor among the reeds, with only a donkey to chaperone them - but if he becomes too pressing, she can hold him at bay with her parasol... Date: 1879

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Flower Girl 1905

Fine window-plants! Wholl buy? shouted the man with the flower-laden donkey-cart; but it was his daughter who did most of the selling. Standing on the edge of the pavement, a plant in each hand, smiling at the passers-by. Date: 1905

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