Keywords: Hôtel de Ville, 24 Mai 1871.jpg Artwork During the semaine sanglante of May of 1871 the Hôtel de Ville was set afire by the communards and took nearly eight days to be fully extinguished Completely destroyed in the fire the building was eventually rebuilt under the Third Republic The total construction process took around ten years to complete and the restored Hôtel de Ville was a near replica of that which was the center of Paris prior to the Commune 1875-1882 lithograph 24 x 30 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Published in Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer Paris à travers les âges Paris Firmin-Didot et cie 1885 accession number 1121876590735480 PD-old Lithographs of Paris Images of Paris from the Brown University Library Engravings of Hotel de Ville de Paris by Theodor Hoffbauer Quai de Gesvres Paris Historical images of the Pont d'Arcole Laundry boats in France Destructions of the Hôtel-de-Ville during the Paris Commune Hôtel de Ville de Paris from the southwest Fires in Paris 1871 Fire in art |