(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN HEADQUARTERS STATE, August 9, 187 - Lot 483

(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN HEADQUARTERS STATE, August 9, 1870 - "Government Statement to the Houses." Gentlemen. The Emperor has promised you that the Empress will call you if circumstances become difficult. We did not want to wait to reunite you until the situation in the country was compromised... We ask you to help us to support and increase the national movement and to organize the mass lifting of all that is valid in the nation. Everything is prepared. PARIS will be in a state of defence, and its supply is guaranteed for a long time. The sedentary National Guard is organized everywhere. The Paris Fire Brigade, the customs officers, will be put into the active army. All the men in the maritime registration.... are called.... to assemble a new army of 450,000 men, we first propose to increase the Mobile National Guard... Not shying away from any of the duties that the events impose on us, we have placed under siege PARIS and the departments that the enemy threatens... the vast majority of the city of PARIS will retain its patriotic attitude..." - Telegraphic dispatch for True Copy L. DE SAINT-PULGENT. Poster (64 x 49) Status B