Guide-recueil de Paris-Brulé : événements de Mai 1871 ... et une collection de photographies ...
A Paris guidebook of 1871 by photographer Pierre Petit, published by E. Dentu, pairing views of the city's buildings before and after the Commune's destruction of May 1871. Its pages set photographs of the Palais-Royal, rue de Lille, Hôtel Thiers, place Vendôme and Palais de Justice in matched sepia plates with French captions. A designer might take from them the stark contrast between intact stone façades and fire-gutted walls, shown in tidy documentary framing.
