The Disturbances in Paris: soldiers at night in the Luxembourg Palace, 1870. Paris during the vote on the pl?biscite was literally crowded with troops, the French Government having taken every precaution to suppress any kind of disturbances that might occur during the voting. Our Engraving represents a portion of the 95th Regiment of the Line on the grand staircase of the Luxembourg Palace, where they passed the whole of Sunday night on the qui vive, as it were. From "Illustrated London News", 1870.