The Siege of Paris (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Robert Lowry Sibbet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0267999542 ISBN 13: 9780267999545

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2020

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Siege of Paris

In Paris seven months, during the last days of the Em pire of Napoleon III. And during the whole of the Great Siege; in Berlin two months, during the demonstrations on the return of the conqueror, William I., Emperor of Germany in Paris a second time at the close of the In surrection by the Commune, and in Paris a third time after a tour through Spain, Italy, Austria, South Germany and Switzerland.

He has, therefore, made an effort to represent the French Capital in a series of chapters during these event ful years. He has also given brief sketches of the move ments of the contending forces in the Departments and of the great battles in which a million Frenchmen resisted unsuccessfully the advance of a million Germans.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0267999542
• ISBN 13: 9780267999545
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 728