Raoul PONCHON. Autograph manuscript signed, Gazette rimée. Éloquence militaire; 4 pages in-8 (qqs erasures and corrections). Poem of 23 quatrains, published on November 20, 1899. Ponchon makes speak the general de GALLIFET, minister of the War, who justifies the measures taken against several officers as the general NEGRIER and his role during the Commune : " Yes, gentlemen, all that I did I believed to do it [...] Oncques, I had no remorse Of the least of my acts Of all the dead that I made dead My hands remain intact "...