WAR of 1870. Handwritten copy of letters from Louis-Bernard BONJEAN (1804-1871); small 23-page in-4 notebook, cover stamped with the Petit Séminaire de Valence. Bonjean, senator from Valence and president of the Cour de Cassation, was the first person arrested by agents of the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871; held hostage, he was shot on May 24 at La Grande Roquette. These 8 letters, written from Paris to his parents, run from August 30, 1870 to January 30, 1871; they are followed by a letter from his widow (Orgeville May 30, 1871). Enclosed is a brochure by Abbé Bonhomme, Carnet d'un aumonier de l'Armée de Paris (siège de 1870-1871), Paris, Bureau sténographiques des Frères Duployé, [1871], 2nd ed. in-8, printed in shorthand.