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Commune More than 130 documents or letters,...

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Commune More than 130 documents or letters, or printed material, 1871-1872 and 1877. Posters: order of the day of general Vinoy; proclamation of Laborderie, provisional prefect general of the Var; circular of Thiers, Head of the Executive Power; authorization of the Committee of Public Salvation to the leaders of the barricades to requisition the foodstuffs and objects useful for the defense; order of general Clinchant enjoining the inhabitants of the 10th district to bring to the town hall the weapons and ammunition which they would be in possession of, or which would be abandoned; official list of the National Guardsmen who were prisoners, wounded, deported... Official telegraphic dispatches in placards or posters, concerning the meeting of the government and the Assembly in Versailles, the public tranquility, the revolt against the national sovereignty, a demonstration without weapons of the party of the order which ended in blood, the situation in province (Lyon, Marseilles, Lille, Toulouse, Saint-Étienne, Le Creusot), the fights in Paris, the operations of repression, the wounded officers, the facts of weapons in the surroundings of the capital, the fires... Administrative or military letters or notes concerning the signing of the Peace, supplies (including a voucher for meat rations), transportation (vouchers for local cars, railroads), ammunition (vouchers for cartridges for the Tirailleurs of the Commune, for projectiles and charges "if it is possible to use oil" for the batteries of Montmartre), the number of troops, prisoners, etc. Miscellaneous : voter's card; identity and security card; memoranda for military supplies, including one in the name of Colonel Collet for 260 troop bags; advertising placard, stamps, and reply envelopes from private postal services; brevet de sous-lieutenant de la Garde nationale de la Seine; receipt card for a patriotic donation; a few newspapers, including No. 1 of La Némésis galante by Jules Choux, 5 issues of Père Duchêne dated during the Republican era, and press clippings; caricature of the Marquis de Galliffet; photo of Élisée Reclus; piety card for the Martyrs of the Second Terror of the Church of Paris; passports; 1877 communications from the 3rd Council of War of the Paris military government, relating to trials of insurgents, and a prisoner's letter to his defender, Me Hache... We note documents signed by General Eudes, General Véronique, General Clément Thomas (scratch), Charles Delescluze, Raoul Rigaud, Ambroise Lyas... We join ink stamps cut, and sealed envelopes: Central Committee of artillery of the Seine; Commander of the Fort of Bicêtre; Military Operations, General Staff of the National Guard of the Seine; Communal Commission; Fort of Issy; General Intendance, Commune of Paris; Commune of Paris 1793, Freedom Equality Fraternity or Death; Command of the Forts of the South, Commune of Paris, etc.