(Capitulation of METZ, Betrayal of BAZAINE) Prefecture of PA - Lot 581

(Capitulation of METZ, Betrayal of BAZAINE) Prefecture of PAS-DE-CALAIS. Telegraph dispatch from TOURS, October 30, 1870: "Proclamation to the French People. "METZ has capitulated!... Marshal BAZAINE has betrayed us. He has made himself the agent of the man from SEDAN, the accomplice of the invader... he has surrendered 120,000 Combatants, 20,000 Wounded, his cannons, his flags and the strongest citadel in France, METZ, untouched until now by foreign defilement... The members of the Crémieux Government, Glais-Bizoin, Gambetta." - Published by Le Préfet du Pas-de-Calais, E. Lenglet - Impr. à ARRAS, Typo. Ve Rousseau-Leroy. Poster (64 x 49) Condition B

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