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and this is the Rue Royale.
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These streets do not matter,
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it's just the visual images
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with what is really going on that counts.
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The Hotel de Ville, which was destroyed.
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Interestingly enough, ten years ago somebody found photos
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taken by this Parisian of the siege in the Commune
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in the back of the Hotel de Ville;
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they were found ten years ago, they had survived.
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I just saw an exposition of them
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at the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris in January,
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of photos that had never been seen before; but, anyway,