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transmission 33 contents :

En Partant pour la Syrie, the hymn which remplaced la Marseillaise

selection of photographs 1-9

the Fall of France 4-6

paris, Rue du 4 Septembre 1870 8-9

le trimphe de l’ordre 10

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“Since the days of the 1851 Coup d'État, the Marseillaise had been banned in France, the of-ficial imperial air being "Partant pour la Syrie," a military march composed by the Emperor'smother, Queen Hortense, with words by Count Alexandre de Laborde...” (Ernest-AlfredVizetelly, My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71)

Partant pour la Syrie / Le jeune et beau Dunois,Venait prier Marie / De bénir ses exploits :

Faites, Reine immortelle / Lui dit-il en partant,Que j'aime la plus belle / Et sois le plus vaillant.Il trace sur la pierre / Le serment de l'honneur,Et va suivre à la guerre / Le Comte son seigneur ;Au noble vœu fidèle / Il dit en combattant :

Amour à la plus belle / Honneur au plus vaillant.On lui doit la Victoire. / Vraiment, dit le seigneur ;Puisque tu fais ma gloire / Je ferai ton bonheur.De ma fille Isabelle, / Sois l'Epoux à l'instant,Car elle est la plus belle, / Et toi le plus vaillant.A l'Autel de Marie, / Ils contractent tous deuxCette union Chérie / Qui seule rend heureux.Chacun dans la chapelle / Disait en les voyant :Amour à la plus belle, / Honneur au plus vaillant.

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Partant pour la Syrie remplaced La Marseillaise

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henri vignes. Djerash (Temple du sud), Syrie (Empire Ottoman), 1864

Albumen print, 210x258 mm, on paper mount, nice tonality.

“Jerash is sometimes misleadingly referred to as the "Pompeii of the Middle East or Asia", re-ferring to its size, extent of excavation and level of preservation (though Jerash was neverburied by a volcano). Jerash is considered one of the most important and best preservedRoman cities in the Near East. It was a city of the Decapolis. Jerash was the birthplace of themathematician Nicomachus of Gerasa (c. 60 – c. 120 AD). A strong earthquake in 749 ADdestroyed large parts of Jerash, while subsequent earthquakes along with the wars and thebig turmoil of the Cruisades contributed to additional destruction... ”

€ 1.500


eugène disdéri. sa majesté, paris, 1856

Vintage albumen print on cdv mount, captioned : “Sa Majesté l’Empereur napoléon III. Modestbut authentic print of the portrait which helped generating the rise of Photography in ImperialFrance. € 300


eugène disdéri. sa majesté and groupies, paris, 1856

Vintage albumen mosaic print on cdv mount. Early pleasant photomontage € 100

The Fall of France 4 On 2 September 1870

“There was no little agitation in France during the years 1868 and 1869. The outcome firstof the Schleswig-Holstein war, and secondly of the war between Prussia and Austria in1866, had alarmed many French politicians. Napoleon III had expected some territorialcompensation in return for his neutrality at those periods, and it is certain that Bismarck,as chief Prussian minister, had allowed him to suppose that he would be able to indemnifyhimself for his non-intervention in the afore-mentioned contests. After attaining her ends,however, Prussia turned an unwilling ear to the French Emperor's suggestions, and fromthat moment a Franco-German war became inevitable. Although, as I well remember,there was a perfect "rage" for Bismarck "this" and Bismarck "that" in Paris--particularlyfor the Bismarck colour, a shade of Havana brown--the Prussian statesman, who had sosuccessfully "jockeyed" the Man of Destiny, was undoubtedly a well hated and dreadedindividual among the Parisians, at least among all those who thought of the future of Eu-rope. Prussian policy, however, was not the only cause of anxiety in France, for at thesame period the Republican opposition to the Imperial authority was steadily gainingstrength in the great cities, and the political concessions by which Napoleon III sought todisarm it only emboldened it to make fresh demands.

In planning a war on Prussia, the Emperor was influenced both by national and by dynasticconsiderations. The rise of Prussia--which had become head of the North German Confe-deration--was without doubt a menace not only to French ascendency on the Continent,but also to France's general interests. On the other hand, the prestige of the Empire havingbeen seriously impaired, in France itself, by the diplomatic defeats which Bismarck hadinflicted on Napoleon, it seemed that only a successful war, waged on the Power fromwhich France had received those successive rebuffs, could restore the aforesaid prestigeand ensure the duration of the Bonaparte dynasty.

Even nowadays, in spite of innumerable revelations, many writers continue to cast all theresponsibility of the Franco-German War on Germany, or, to be more precise, on Prussiaas represented by Bismarck. That, however, is a great error. A trial of strength was regardedon both sides as inevitable, and both sides contributed to bring it about.

Bismarck's share in the conflict was to precipitate hostilities, selecting for them what hejudged to be an opportune moment for his country, and thereby preventing the EmperorNapoleon from maturing his designs. The latter did not intend to declare war until earlyin 1871; the Prussian statesman brought it about in July, 1870...

Curiously enough, on the very day of the disaster of Wörth a rumour of a great Frenchvictory spread through Paris. My father had occasion to send me to his bankers in the RueVivienne, and on making my way to the Boulevards, which I proposed to follow, I wasamazed to see the shopkeepers eagerly setting up the tricolour flags which they habituallydisplayed on the Emperor's fête-day (August 15). Nobody knew exactly how the rumoursof victory had originated, nobody could give any precise details respecting the allegedgreat success, but everybody believed in it, and the enthusiasm was universal. It was aboutthe middle of the day when I repaired to the Rue Vivienne, and after transacting my busi-ness there, I turned into the Place de la Bourse, where a huge crowd was assembled. Thesteps of the exchange were also covered with people, and amidst a myriad eager gesticu-lations a perfect babel of voices was ascending to the blue sky. One of the green omni-buses, which in those days ran from the Bourse to Passy, was waiting on the square, unableto depart owing to the density of the crowd; and all at once, amidst a scene of great ex-citement and repeated shouts of "La Marseillaise!" "La Marseillaise!" three or four well-dressed men climbed on to the vehicle, and turning towards the mob of speculators andsightseers covering the steps of the Bourse, they called to them repeatedly: "Silence! Si-lence!" The hubbub slightly subsided, and thereupon one of the party on the omnibus, agood-looking slim young fellow with a little moustache, took off his hat, raised his rightarm, and began to sing the war-hymn of the Revolution. The stanza finished, the wholeassembly took up the refrain.

Since the days of the Coup d'État, the Marseillaise had been banned in France, the officialimperial air being "Partant pour la Syrie," a military march composed by the Emperor'smother, Queen Hortense, with words by Count Alexandre de Laborde, who therein pic-tured a handsome young knight praying to the Blessed Virgin before his departure for Pa-lestine, and soliciting of her benevolence that he might "prove to be the bravest brave,and love the fairest fair." During the twenty years of the third Napoleon's rule, Paris hadheard the strains of "Partant pour la Syrie" many thousand times, and, though they weretuneful enough, had become thoroughly tired of them. To stimulate popular enthusiasmin the war the Ollivier Cabinet had accordingly authorized the playing and singing of thelong-forbidden "Marseillaise," which, although it was well-remembered by the survivorsof '48, and was hummed even by the young Republicans of Belleville and the QuartierLatin, proved quite a novelty to half the population, who were destined to hear it againand again and again from that period until the present time...


The first reports which reached Paris indicated, as usual, very favourable results respectingthe contest there. My friend Captain Bingham, however, obtained some correct informa-tion-- from, I believe, the British Embassy--and I have always understood that it was hewho first made the terrible truth known to one of the deputies of the Opposition party,who hastened to convey it to Thiers. The battle of Sedan was fought on Thursday, Septem-ber 1; but it was only on Saturday, September 3, that Palikao shadowed forth the disasterin the Chamber, stating that MacMahon had failed to effect a junction with Bazaine, andthat, after alternate reverses and successes--that is, driving a part of the German army intothe Meuse!--he had been obliged to retreat on Sedan and Mézières, some portion of hisforces, moreover, having been compelled to cross the Belgian frontier.

That tissue of inaccuracies, devised perhaps to palliate the effect of the German telegramsof victory which were now becoming known to the incredulous Parisians, was torn toshreds a few hours later when the Legislative Body assembled for a night-sitting. Palikaowas then obliged to admit that the French army and the Emperor Napoleon had surren-dered to the victorious German force. Jules Favre, who was the recognized leader of theRepublican Opposition, thereupon brought forward a motion of dethronement, proposingthat the executive authority should be vested in a parliamentary committee. In accordancewith the practice of the Chamber, Farve's motion had to be referred to its _bureaux_, orordinary committees, and thus no decision was arrived at that night, it being agreed thatthe Chamber should reassemble on the morrow at noon.

The deputies separated at a very late hour. My father and myself were among all theanxious people who had assembled on the Place de la Concorde to await the issue of thedebate. Wild talk was heard on every side, imprecations were levelled at the Empire, andit was already suggested that the country had been sold to the foreigner. At last, as thecrowd became extremely restless, the authorities, who had taken their precautions inconsequence of the revolutionary spirit which was abroad, decided to disperse it...

More reading: Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/9896/pg9896.txt



Attr. à collard. hotel de villehotel de ville, paris, end of 1860’s

large Albumen print, 435x320 mm. Gambetta could not stay in the turbulent Parliament andmade the proclamation since the balcony of Hotel de Ville. € 600

«Français ! Le Peuple a devancé la Chambre, qui hésitait. Pour sauver la Patrie en danger, il a demandé la République.Il a mis ses représentants non au pouvoir, mais au péril.La République a vaincu l'invasion en 1792, la République est proclamée.La Révolution est faite au nom du droit, du salut public.Citoyens, veillez sur la Cité qui vous est confiée; demain vous serez, avec l'armée, les vengeurs de la Patrie !

hôtel de ville de paris, le 4 septembre 1870. signé : emmanuel arago, adolphe

crémieux, pierre-Frédéric dorian, Jules Favre, Jules Ferry, guyot-montpayroux, léon

gambetta, louis-antoine garnier-pagès, Joseph-pierre magnin, Francisque ordinaire,

pierre-albert tachard, eugène pelletan, ernest picard, Jules simon. »

Avant ce 4 septembre 1870, la “République” avait déjà été proclamée, en France, à deuxreprises, la première fois par l'abolition de la royauté par la Convention nationale, le 21 sep-tembre 1792 ; la seconde, par le Gouvernement provisoire du 24 février 1848.

"French! The People outperformed the House, who hesitated. To save theFatherland in danger, he asked the Republic.He put his representatives not in power, but at risk.The Republic defeated the invasion in 1792, the Republic is proclaimed.The Revolution is in the name of law, public salvation.Citizens, watch over the city entrusted to you; tomorrow you will be withthe army, the avengers of the Fatherland!

paris, cuty-hall, september 4, 1870. signed: emmanuel arago, adolphe crémieux, pierre

Frédéric dorian, Jules Favre, Jules Ferry, guyot-montpayroux, leon gambetta, louis-

antoine garnier-pagès, Joseph-pierre magnin, Francisque ordinary, pierre-albert

tachard, eugène pelletan, ernest picard, Jules simon. "

Before the September 4, 1870, the "Republic" had already been proclaimed in France, twice,the first time by the abolition of the monarchy by the National Convention, September 21,1792; the second, by the Provisional Government of February 24, 1848.

Gambetta Speech 8 On 4 September


charles soulier (1840-1875). l’incendie de la commune, paris, mai 1871

Albumen print, 124x170 mm, captioned : “L’incendie”.

For technical obvious reasons, in 1871, photojournalism could not document Parisian refugeesin the basements.

The photographer completed his series with the albumen reproduction of an hative paintedcomposition. And suddenly, Paris looks medieval, gothic, pre-haussmmanian. € 300


Florentin nicolas claude harmand photographeernest pichio (1826-1893), le triomphe de l’ordre, 1877-1879

Vintage albumen print, 435x320 mm, interesting vintage caption about censorship, ink andpencil on mount : "Photographie interdite le 26 Aout 1879".

The Triumph of the order, also said the Communards' Wall, was made in 1877 by Ernest Pichioduring his exile in Geneva. Pichio painted with The Triumph of the order a unique icono-graphic document of the massive summary executions at Pere Lachaise. The subject was nottolerated by French administration and institutions for almost a century.

The painting desapeared and reproduction were severely forbidden. No other albumen printknown. One lithographic interpretation at St-Denis Museum. € 1.800

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