(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE, August 9, 1870 - Lot 500

(SEINE-ET-MARNE). PARIS IN A STATE OF SIEGE, August 9, 1870 - "Declaration of the Government to the Chambers. "Gentlemen. The Emperor promised you that the Empress would call you if circumstances became difficult. We did not want to wait to bring you together until the situation of the fatherland was compromised ... We ask you to help us to support and increase the national movement and to organize the mass rising of all that is valid in the nation. Everything is prepared. PARIS is going to be in a state of defense, and its supplies are assured for a long time to come. The sedentary National Guard is being organized everywhere. The regiments of Paris firefighters and customs officers will be placed in the active army. All the men of the maritime registration... are called up... to assemble a new army of 450,000 men, we first propose to increase the mobile National Guard... Not shrinking from any of the duties that events impose on us, we have placed PARIS and the departments threatened by the enemy under siege... the vast majority of the city of PARIS will maintain its patriotic attitude...". - Telegraphic dispatch for L. DE SAINT-PULGENT. Poster (64 x 49) Condition B