QUINET, Edgar. Le Siège de Paris et la défense nationale. Published in Paris by Lacroix and Verboeckhoven et Cie in 1871. In-8 format. Navy blue half-chagrin, smooth spine decorated with double gilt fillets and dotted lines, gilt lettering, speckled edges. 137pp. and 3ff. (table of contents, catalog). Rubbing with slight lack of leather on spine, slight scuffing on boards, corners a little dulled. Very rare first edition. Exiled under the Second Empire to Belgium and then Switzerland, Edgar Quinet (1803-1875) wrote a scathing critique of Prussia's conduct towards Republican France during the siege. A pleasant copy, very fresh inside.