The accident on Montparnasse It is one of the most famous railway accidents in history: the accident at the Montparnasse train station in Paris on 22 October 1895. A train that drove from Granville to Paris did not come to a halt at the end of the track but overflowed both the buffer stop and the platform , then broke through the outer wall of the terminus and crashed on the Place de Rennes. Dozens of Parisian photographers came running to capture this spectacular accident with their cameras. This photo was published by the agency Léon & Lévy, which specialized in postcards. In the derailment, only one person died: Marie Augustine Aguillard, a newspaper saleswoman, who was killed by falling debris.
