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Mairie du XIe arrondissement, boulevard Voltaire

"Mairie" means mayor's office, or city hall.

Looks the same now: mairie11.paris.fr/mairie11/jsp/site/Portal.jsp?page_id=14 Picture taken this year from similar location as Bain photo: upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/P1020897_Pari...

Original Agence Meurisse photo on Gallica site, with caption
"La foule devant la Mairie du XIe arrondissement pour toucher l'allocation "
The crowd outside the 11th Arrondissement Mairie to receive the allowance

Thanks for finding the source photo, artolog. We'll add some of this information to the caption the next time we update.

interesting :)

wow!

Cropped from original Agence Meurisse photo at Bibliotheque Nationale de France's Gallica site, with following caption:
"Le drapeau bavarois aux invalides"
[The Bavarian flag in Invalides]




Pub. Date 1914

Related photo in Bain Collection:

It seems strange to see a Swiss company laboratory vandalized in Paris, but apparently the Maggi GmbH was incorporated in Singen, Germany, just across the border.

Thank you trialsanderrors for adding some context to this photograph. We will add some of the information to the description when we update.

nice

This picture labels the store a dairy:

"The 'Maggi' dairy sacked at the beginning of the war, Rue Richier, Paris, August 1914."

Upon a quick search, I found this eyewitness report (from New Zealand, of all places), which describes Maggi as a brand of milk and consomme, discovered to be a German product sold by a German firm. Very interesting report of the first reaction to the mobilization, the Appenrodt tea room which we just discussed here also gets a mention.

trialsanderrors: Thank you for the related image and the newspaper report on the destruction of shops in Paris in August of 1914. The website of digitized newspapers from the National Library of New Zealand that you cited: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast is a great resource, and as you note, covers news around the world.