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136 - WAR of 1870–71: A pencil and ink drawing of a wounded French…
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WAR of 1870–71: A pencil and ink drawing of a wounded French soldier, seated on a cannon with his arm outstretched, captioned ‘1870’. Telegram dated 28 August proposing to supply smocks to the Mobile Guards. Authorisation for 30 days’ convalescence for a Mobile Guard from Saône-et-Loire, December. Letter from Chalonnes dated 5 December. Telegraphic dispatches dated 24 and 25 October (Chartres occupied, Châteaudun evacuated, Dreux under threat, the enemy advancing from Gien towards Orléans, reinforcements arriving at Nogent-le-Rotrou...). The Lyon-based newspaper *Le Petit Journal* of 16 and 19 October (arrival of the balloon at Tournay, capture of Orléans, Beaugency evacuated, the Vosges abandoned, Garibaldi at Dôle, siege of Paris, Bazaine at Metz, etc.). Two caricatures by Cham on sheets of paper (30x26cm, early in the war). Paris newspaper *La petite presse chronique de la guerre*, 20 January, with food supplies as its main topic. Official dispatch of 7 October (the enemy has been driven out of Toury, has left Pithiviers, Épernon is free, the Prussians are near Gisors, Alsace is under attack from all sides...). Letter from Lyon dated 15 February. *La Liberté* (Bordeaux) newspaper, 12 December. *L’Union* (Tours) newspapers of 30 and 31 October (surrender of Sélestat, surrender of Metz, balloon spotted near Basel, etc.). A pay slip for the Mobile Guard from September. A letter dated May 1871 requesting a list of the names of conscripts from the class of 1865 who had been permanently discharged. Certificate of origin of injury dated 18 August 1870 in the Meurthe. Death certificate due to pulmonary congestion in Vincennes/St Maurice on 3 January. “War Stories: The Invasion” by Ludovic Halévy, with illustrations by L. Marchetti and A. Paris; a version published in 10 instalments in *Le Figaro*, instalments 3, 4, 6, 9 and 10 (circa 1890). Letter on the letterhead of the veterans of 1870–71, Paris 1902. Set of 25 documents.
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