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• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche IV - Les Projecteurs [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 4 - The Searchlights]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: Anti-aircraft defences at Chatillon. Six searchlight beams sweep the night sky forming an apex right of centre. A full moon to right of the composition. Three AA gunners with gun in the foreground left. In the distance the whole of Paris can be...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche II - La Sirène de Notre-Dame [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 2 – The Siren of Notre-Dame]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: A group of watchers on the roof of Notre-Dame scanning the sky above an aerial view of Paris and the Seine. Upper left, an air raid siren on the tower roof. Searchlight beams trail across the evening sky while on the horizon the Fort de...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche I - Le Guetteur [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 1 - The Watch]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: A poilu wearing a tin hat watches the night sky. He is standing on a rickety wooden tower with a ladder leading to the top platform

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche VIII - Notre-Dame [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 8 - Notre Dame Cathedral]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: The bow of a fire-fighting vessel manned by two fire-fighters appears foreground left hosing a burning barge hit by German incendiaries. The barge is surrounded foreground left to right by four rowing boats manned by fire-fighters with grappling...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche VII - Le Métro [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 7 - Underground]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: Parisians take shelter from air raid in the Odéon Station. The cavernous station, dimly lit, is filled with masses of people. To the foreground right two old men sitting thoughtfully facing opposite direction to seated woman and baby. To the left...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche VI - Sous les Bombes [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 6 - Under Bombardment]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: German planes over the Ile de la Cité at night. To the foreground of the composition, a German biplane circling top right. Anti-aircraft defence from below operational. Flares and explosions to top left and bottom right of composition. The...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche V - La Lumiere Bleue [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 5 - Blue Light]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: Parisians flock to Abris Metro station during German air raid at night. Two columns moving right to left to Metro entrance bathed in blue light and supervised by a gendarme. Foreground centre shows three figures (from the right, one British...

• 'Paris Bombardé, Janvier - Juillet 1918', Planche IX - Une Nuit Rouge et Or [Portfolio: Paris Under Bombardment, January-July 1918, Plate 9 - Red and Gold Night (Night of Fires)]

  (art) Made by: Busset, Maurice (artist) 1918

  image: An explosion in the Rue de Rivoli seen from the Pont Marie on Ile Saint-Louis. The bridge dissects the composition almost equally. A barge foreground bottom right. The burning buildings in the Rue de Rivoli throw the Right Bank into sharp...