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Récits de guerre. Paris assiégé 1870-1871
Jules CLARETIE
Paris - Goupil et Cie - Strauss - Sans date (1888)
- Bookbinder : CHAMPS-STROOBANTS
- Format : In-folio.
- Number of volumes : 1 volume.
- Binding : Bound.
- Collation : 155 pp.
- Language : Français
Red half-marbled binding with corners. Nervous spine. Top edge gilt. Binding signed CHAMPS-STROOBANTS Numerous black illustrations, including 10 double-page colour illustrations, after Meissonier, De Neuville, Detaille, Puvis de Chavannes, Gustave Doré and from the collection composed by M. A. Binant.
The Paris headquarters became a pictorial subject. "Paris and its inhabitants are shown heroic and stoic, by their patience, dedication and ability to resist" {...} This heroism restored to Paris a political respectability and dignity soiled by the revolutionary errors of the Commune". (The Paris Commune, revolution without images? Politics and representations in republican France 1871-1914 by Bertrand Tillier, Champ Vallon Editions, 2004).
SINGLE EXPLORARY illustrated with 43 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS signed by DRANER, in the margins, illustrating soldiers from various army corps .
Very nice copy.
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