Illustration showing a scene of devastation in Avenue Rapp, Champs Elysees, during the Paris Commune fighting, 1871. This image shows the scene as soldiers run for cover, with one soldier holding a lifeless child in his arms. At the end of the Franco-Prussian war, Parisian socialists refused to surrender Paris to the rightwing French government, which led to bitter fighting on the streets of the city and large-scale executions of Communards.