FRANCE - POLICE GENERALE - GOUVERNEMENT PROVISOIRE de DEFENS - Lot 672

FRANCE - POLICE GENERALE - GOUVERNEMENT PROVISOIRE de DEFENSE NATIONALE. RARE PASSPORT à L 'ETRANGER sur document d' Empire mentions EMPIRE Français et AU NOM de L'EMPEREUR BIFFEES par l'autorité au crayon de couleur bleu faute d'imprimés ad hoc, compte tenu de la soudaineté de la chute de ce 2e Empire ( * ) - " nous Préfet de Police du Nord, requérons les autorités ... laisser passer librement SARRAZIN Antoine, étudiant natif de LILLE et demeurant à LILLE allant en BELGIQUE et lui donner aide et protection. Done in Lille on September 29, 1870 - "Price ten francs" - Signed and stamped Préfecture du Nord. Large document 41.5 x 32 cm on paper watermarked with the imperial eagle with wings spread and mention of passport + year 1865, on the back seal and handwritten mention of agreement to return to Belgium by the Belgian Consul in Lille (with mention of collection of the entry fee of one franc 50). ( * ) French Empire: December 2, 1852 / September 4, 1870 - On September 1, battle of Sedan, French defeat against Prussia, capture and surrender of Emperor Napoleon III. On September 4, under pressure from the crowd in front of the National Assembly, proclamation of the Republic and establishment of the PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT of NATIONAL DEFENSE.