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MILLET Jean-François (1814 - 1875)
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MILLET Jean-François (1814 - 1875)
L.A.S. "J.F. Millet", Cherbourg January 31, 1871, to Alfred sENsIER| 2 pages in-8.
Superb letter, three days after the fall of Paris and the signing of the armistice against the Prussians.
"Finally my dear Sensier everything is consumed! We are delivered to all insults and all devastations. Shame and ruin! Is this France? I hear about it the sneer of the nations.
My head is lost, I am devastated. These awful victors are going to be for Paris a broom of destruction. They are going to take home all these beautiful testimonies of human intelligence that we had so beautiful and of all kinds," and they will annihilate the rest: "O! who will be able to cry over all that a great enough cry! what a shame! what a shame! to see this victorious leader put on his head and to walk among us his crown of pride!" [Proclamation of the German Empire on January 18: King William I is proclaimed "Deutscher Kaiser" in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles]...
L.A.S. "J.F. Millet", Cherbourg January 31, 1871, to Alfred sENsIER| 2 pages in-8.
Superb letter, three days after the fall of Paris and the signing of the armistice against the Prussians.
"Finally my dear Sensier everything is consumed! We are delivered to all insults and all devastations. Shame and ruin! Is this France? I hear about it the sneer of the nations.
My head is lost, I am devastated. These awful victors are going to be for Paris a broom of destruction. They are going to take home all these beautiful testimonies of human intelligence that we had so beautiful and of all kinds," and they will annihilate the rest: "O! who will be able to cry over all that a great enough cry! what a shame! what a shame! to see this victorious leader put on his head and to walk among us his crown of pride!" [Proclamation of the German Empire on January 18: King William I is proclaimed "Deutscher Kaiser" in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles]...