Paris bloque : un garde national poste en defense des remparts cherche a proteger sa marmite des obus. Suite a la defaite de Sedan et la capture de Napoleon III; les Prusses assiegerent la ville de Paris le 9/09/1870. Vignette tiree dune serie sur le Paris assiege. Illustration de Faustin. 1871 Collection privee. Paris besieged; 1870-1871. Cartoon depicting a scene during the Prussian Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871). After the disastrous defeat of the French at Sedan and the capture of Napoleon III; the Prussians surrounded Paris on 9 September 1870. From a series entitled Paris Bloque. From a private collection.