01869cgm a22003613i 4500 22860710 20250607115901.6 cr ||a|||||||| 220930s2016 dcu||| | fo vleng 22860710 0 ibc orignew u ncip 20 y-gencatlg 2021690209 7369 DLC eng DLC The Ruins of Paris, 1871. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-06-02. 1 online resource two-dimensional moving image tdi rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Classification: History (General) and History of Europe. Peter Brooks. Recorded on 2016-06-02. Much of central Paris was burned during the Franco-Prussian War that saw the death of the Commune. The resulting ruins of Paris at once became a tourist attraction, and the subject of remarkable photographs made for the tourist trade. The novelist Gustave Flaubert came to visit the ruins, and found in them a lesson for his contemporaries: if only they had understood the novel he had published some months earlier, "Sentimental Education," this cataclysmic destruction never could have happened. Peter Brooks explores that cataclysm, and the specific role of photography in the historiography of the moment. Researchers. Biography, History. Franco-Prussian War, Commune, Paris, Gustave Flaubert, ruins of paris, photographs. Library of Congress. John W. Kluge Center (Library of Congress), sponsoring body. Event video gdcwebcasts 160602klu1600 https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/gdcwebcasts.160602klu1600 gdc/webcasts kluge s-Online Electronic Resource