ALSACE-LORRAINE 1871. PARIS: Poster for the "ELECTIONS for t - Lot 525

ALSACE-LORRAINE 1871. PARIS: Poster for the "ELECTIONS for the NATIONAL ASSEMBLY of July 2, 1871", by DE HIBON DE FROHEN, Former President of the Committee of Alsace and Lorraine - "Gentlemen Electors of PARIS, I come to ask for your votes. After the terrible misfortunes that have befallen France, ... My program would be this. 1) To France alone belongs the right of self-determination ... Staying in Paris, during the two Seats, I was able to judge men and things... It is the duty of the National Assembly... to concern itself with the final Constitution of the Country, and to decide whether the wisest form of Government is the one which, in the past, gave Alsace and Lorraine to France, which it will never forget, and which, nowadays, has endowed it with ALGERIA, that fertile land so full of future... Printed in Paris, at Madame Veuve Bouchard-Huzard, 5 rue de l'Éperon. Poster (62 x 46) State B