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Histoire de deux ans, 1870-1871. (tom. 4. Continuée par M. Albert Maurin.)

FAURE, Émile Valentin César., MAURIN, Albert., AUNAY, Alfred d' - pseud. [i.e. Alfred Descudier], and FAURE (Émile Valentin César) · 1872 · 32 pictures

A French popular history of the Franco-Prussian War and the Commune, written by Émile Valentin César Faure with Albert Maurin and Alfred d'Aunay and published in Paris in 1872 for a general readership following recent events. The plates are wood-engraved bust portraits of officers and politicians, vignetted in oval or cloudy hatched grounds, giving designers epaulettes, medal clusters, spectacles and beards rendered in fine parallel line.

British Library · HMNTS 9231.m.3. · Digitised by the British Library with Microsoft · No known copyright restrictions (public domain)