MANIFESTATION Lot n° 41

MANIFESTATION Funeral of soldier Albert Aernoult, February 11, 1912. Photographs. 2 silver prints of the period, mounted on cardboard, captioned on the back. Images : 11,5 x 16,5 cm ; mount : 27 x 21 cm "On February 11, 1912, 120,000 people accompanied to the Parisian cemetery of Père Lachaise the remains of soldier Albert Aernoult, who died under the blows of his torturers on July 2, 1909 in one of the French army's colonial prisons located on the border of Algeria and Morocco, the Djennan-ed-Dar camp." In John CERULLO, Minotaur. French Military Justice and the Aernoult-Rousset Affair DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.