Bazar de la Charité fire

There is a memorial here at the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Consolation Paris to the victims of the fire.

Bazar de la Charité

The Bazar de la Charité was an annual charity event organized by the French Catholic aristocracy in Paris from 1885 onwards. It is best known for the fire at the 1897 bazaar that claimed 126 lives, many of them aristocratic women, the most eminent of whom was Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Alençon, née Sophie Charlotte of Bavaria, sister of the famous Empress Sisi.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazar de la Charité