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CENT-JOURS 1815. NORD. "PROCLAMATION pour la Convocation des Collègues Électoraux du Département et des Arrondissements.". "HABITANTS du Département du NORD!" signed (impr.) NAPOLÉON. LILLE (59) May 4, 1815. Vignette with the lightning eagle - "You are placed on the extreme frontier; whatever your political opinions may be, when the foreigner threatens the Fatherland, your strongholds, your patriotism will know how to rise before him insurmountable barriers ... If the EMPEROR is forced to run to arms he wants the National Bodies to be assembled, that they constitute the Government, that they preserve it, while his armed arm will go to defend us ...". Executed by DUPONT-DELPORTE Préfet du NORD - Printed in LILLE, by L. DANEL, grande place -Placard (53 x 42) Condition A