(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN A STATE OF SEAT,... - Lot 423 - Vermot et Associés

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(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN A STATE OF SEAT,... - Lot 423 - Vermot et Associés
(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN A STATE OF SEAT, August 9, 1870 - "Declaration of the Government to the Chambers. "Gentlemen. The Emperor promised you that the Empress would call you if the circumstances became difficult. We did not want to wait to gather you that the situation of the fatherland was compromised... We ask you to help us to support and to increase the national movement and to organize the rise in mass of all that is valid in the nation. Everything is prepared. PARIS is going to be in a state of defense, and its supply is assured for a long time. The sedentary National Guard is organized everywhere. The Regiments of firemen of Paris, the customs officers, will be put in the active army. All the men of the maritime registration... are called... to gather a new army of 450,000 men, we propose to you first to increase the mobile National Guard... Not backing down from any of the duties that events impose on us, we have put PARIS and the departments that the enemy threatens in a state of siege... the immense majority of the city of PARIS will keep its patriotic attitude... " - Telegraphic dispatch for conformed copy L. DE SAINT-PULGENT. Poster (64 x 49) State B
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