Postcard of a building on Rue Laffitte destroyed in the Gotha bomber raid on Paris the night of March 8, 1918. Rue Laffitte is in the 9th arrondissement, north of the Seine, and close to the city center.
Raid de Gothas sur Paris 8 Mars 1918 — rue LaffitteRaid of the Gothas on Paris, March 8, 1918 — rue LaffitteReverse:Some of the houses that were destroyed about a year ago are not repaired wholly yet. Just shows how the frogs ? their time about doing some things. You can't hurry them to save your life— 4 [?]
"— Aeroplane raid on the evening of the 8th, from 8.45 p.m. to twenty minutes past midnight. It lasted longer than any previous raid. The next morning we learnt that Montmartre and Batignolles, the northern and north-eastern suburbs, had been badly damaged. But the three bombs which fell near the Folies-Bergère (in the Rue Geoffroy-Marie) and in the Rue Drouot specially attracted the crowd of sightseers, and general attention, because they reached the heart of Paris. Thirteen deaths have been reported."
Entry from the diary of Michel Corday, a senior civil servant in the French government, about the Gotha bomber raid on Paris the night of March 8, 1918. The Folies-Bergère music hall was founded in 1869.
The Paris Front: an Unpublished Diary: 1914-1918 by Michel Corday, page 323, copyright © 1934, by E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publisher: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publication date: 1934
1918-03-08, 1918, March, Paris, Gotha, Gotha bomber, Paris Gotha raid, 1918-03-08 Paris Gotha raid
