Unidentified photographer / artist
1871 (quote refers to)
Decline of moral standards in Paris
Book page
Google BooksEdmund Ollier
Cassell's history of the war between France and Germany, 1870-1871, Volume 2 (London, Paris & New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin), p.368.
A shopkeeper said to me, ' Let me show you how rapidly we are progressing.' And, pulling out a pile of
cartes de visite, he continued, ' Look on the back of it. That is the name of the most fastidious photographer in the city. Before the War, he would have prosecuted the man who should have charged him with publishing such a picture ; and even upon
cartes of the ordinary departures from decorum he would not have put his name. Then as to selling, any shop that should have been caught selling such a picture as this would have been closed, and its proprietor punished.'"
[The context of the above is the moral collapse in Paris following the Franco-Prussian War in March 1871.]
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