BRETONS. CENT-JOURS. Return of NAPOLÉON. 1815. ILLE-ET-VILAI - Lot 423

BRETONS. CENT-JOURS. Return of NAPOLÉON. 1815. ILLE-ET-VILAINE. Avis du Comte Auguste de BIGARRÉ Lieutenant-Général, aux Habitants des Campagnes des 4 Départements de la 13ème Division Militaire. Given at Headquarters in RENNES (35) on May 11, 1815. Followed by its order of the day: "Honest and Brave BRETON Farmers... No Bretons, the French people will never suffer feudalism, still less the foreign yoke. Eight hundred thousand bayonets, led by a man worthy of governing us, will make our external enemies think twice, and the fear of shame and contempt will stop the march of any bad Frenchman, who would have the baseness to conspire against the Fatherland and Liberty. VIVE L'EMPEREUR!" From Imprimerie de Chausseblanche, Place Impériale, RENNES. Empire vignette with crowned lightning eagle. Placard (54 x 43 cm) Condition B.