(GOLD COAST) - ARMISTICE OF 1871. GOVERNMENT OF BORDEAUX. PR - Lot 513

(GOLD COAST) - ARMISTICE OF 1871. GOVERNMENT OF BORDEAUX. PROCLAMATION of Léon GAMBETTA in Bordeaux, on 31 January 1871 about the Armistice signed on 28 January 1871 "Citizens, the foreigner has just inflicted on France the cruelest insult that it would have been given to suffer in this cursed war, an immeasurable punishment for the errors and weaknesses of a great people. Paris, impregnable to force, defeated by famine, could not hold... On January 28, he succumbed! The city still remains intact as a last tribute... The only forts have been paid to the enemy... Thanks to Paris, we are determined patriots... But, as if bad fortune wanted to overwhelm us, something more sinister and painful than the fall of Paris awaited us: We were signed, without our knowledge, without warning us, without consulting us, an armistice....We asked for explanations in Paris... However, no one comes from Paris, and, it is necessary to act, it is necessary, it is necessary, cost that costs, to thwart the treacherous combinations of France's enemies... To arms! Long live the Republic! Long live France! Long live the one and indivisible Republic!...." - SEMUR, Print Lib. VERDOT. Poster (62 x 42) Status A.