La Barricade de la Rue Basfroi

The Economist Plaza, London, 2002

 

 

 

Trellis in the shape of a barricade photographed during the 1871 Paris Commune.

 

The wall faced a branch of BNP Paribas, a descendant of the Comptoir national d'escompte de Paris, established in the wake of the earlier 1848 revolution in order to safeguard the financial stability of the French state.