WAR of 1870. Autograph manuscript, Events of 1870; small 240 - Lot 406

WAR of 1870. Autograph manuscript, Events of 1870; small 240-page notebook, beige cloth boards. Manuscript illustrated with a few pen-and-ink drawings recounting the events of the war: bravery, heroic deeds, battle stories, etc. The notebook ends with long lists of the names of wounded from various regiments. Copies of some fifty dispatches from prefects in eastern France or from headquarters (Metz or Paris), from August 7 to 25, 1870; with decrees, proclamations, laws, reports, etc.; letters from the theater of war (Forbach, Woerth, Longeville-Bomy, Vionville, Fort Queuleu, Saint-Privat, Jaumont, Schelestadt). Details on the Prussians in Alsace-Lorraine, and the bombardment of Strasbourg; on Paris (firemen, the mobile guard at the Saint-Maur camp...), espionage, francs-tireurs: Uhlans, corpse robbers; the defense of Phalsbourg and Verdun; ambulances and hospitals, etc. We enclose 11 miscellaneous items: circulars, private letters (notably from jurist J.J. Bachofen, Mulhouse fabric manufacturer J. Hartmann-Liebach); plus one engraving.