[COMMUNE DE PARIS]. Album of photographs. [Paris, 1871]. - Oblong in-4 album, 257 x 355. Dark brown wedge-cut half-brown, spine with nerves ( contemporary binding ). Album of 36 original photographs on albumen paper pasted on cardboard mounted on tabs, most of them captioned with pencil, showing barricades, ruins, camps, etc. in Paris during the Commune. You can see the barricades on Place de la Concorde and Rue de Castiglione, the ruins of Auteuil, Rue du Bac, the Red Cross, the Royal Palace, the Tuileries, the Caisse des Dépôts and the Town Hall, the Versaillais camp in the Tuileries Gardens, the National Guard camp at the foot of the Montmartre hill on 18 March 1871, the mobile barricade on Place Vendôme , etc. These photographs are unsigned, but several have been identified as the work of photographer Bruno Braquehais (1823-1875), including the shot of National Guard Commander Simon Charles Meyer on Place Vendôme, who issued invitations to attend the fall of the Vendôme column on 16 May 1871.