Aimé-Louis CHAMPOLLION-FIGEAC (1812-1894) librarian and archivist, nephew of the Egyptologist whose biographer he was (Les Deux Champollion). L.A., Paris December 2, 1870, to his wife in Vif (Isère); 1 page and a quarter in-8, address with postmarks. Letter by mounted balloon during the siege of Paris. [Obliterated Paris December 2; then December 8: Valence s/Rhône, Lyon to Avignon, Grenoble; Vif December 9]. He received a letter from his "dear Bichette" dated Vif on November 14, "the only one to get through the Prussians". He continues to live as best he can, "anxiously awaiting the outcome of the great military operations begun yesterday, which will either deliver us or let us be annihilated. [...] Paris is very calm", but misery is increasing...