"Pelcoq, Jules (?). Jules Pelcoq was a Parisian book illustrator who covered the French side for the Illustrated London News during the Franco-Prussian War. While covering ...
the 1870 siege of Paris, Pelcoq dispatched his work by balloon to London. Wood engravings were then made from his sketches once they arrived in England. His work captures the attempt by Parisian troops to break through the surrounding Prussian army and the plight of citizens on the edge of starvation forced to eat animals from the Parisian zoo." - Roth, Mitchel P., "Historical Dictionary of War Journalism", Westport und London 1997, S. 234
