SILBERMANN (Gustave-Rodolphe). 1801-1876. Printer-typesetter - Lot 201

SILBERMANN (Gustave-Rodolphe). 1801-1876. Printer-typesetter from Strasbourg, founder of Imprimerie Alsacienne. Autograph manuscript "Journal des faits. & Notes journalières". S.l.n.d. (1869-1875). In-4, 10-16-11 pp. in-12 and in-8 (1867-1869); 29-44-710 pp. (1870-1874); and 364 pp. in draft paginated 748-842 (1874-1875); leaves, in folder. IMPORTANT UNpublished memoir by GUSTAVE SILBERMANN, printer and leading figure from Alsace, in particular ON THE SIEGE AND COMMUNE OF PARIS, of which he was a direct witness (movement of insurgents, defection of troops, capture of barricades and various forts including that of Issy, slaughter of the Vendôme column, capture of Montmartre, burning of Communards and state of the Capital on the return of the Versaillais, procession of prisoners, etc.), the capitulation of the French armies to the French Revolution, and the return of the French army to Paris.), the capitulation of the French armies, ON THE TAKEOVER OF STRASBOURG AND THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF ALSACE AFTER THE FRENCH-PRUSSIAN WAR OF 1870. The author describes in great detail the political and military events of the war, the fall of the Empire and the establishment of a republican government in Bordeaux, as well as several political events during the early years of the Third Republic (including a description of the elections, the speeches of Thiers and Mac-Mahon, and the curious visit of Shah Persia to Paris and Versailles), supplementing his daily memoirs with a weather report and several newspaper clippings; In passing, he gives his impressions, his family visits and the pursuit of his business, his errands between Strasbourg and Versailles, where he eventually settled, his links with Alsatian circles in the capital; he gave up his various functions, notably with the Consistoire St-Thomas in Strasbourg, and sold his printing business to the Fischbach family, to devote himself to his gardens of exotic species. Mention of Generals Hartung (to whom he is related), Malroy, Vinoy, Castenau, Colson, Pradier, Cissey, various Strasbourg personalities, the book trade and several fashionable personalities (Sardou, Coquelin, Goubaud, Martinet, Levrault, Sedillot, Rothan, Hetzel, de Loche, Saglio, Champy, Boersch, Oberlin, Bizouard, Dietz, Linder, d'Aspremont, Scheurer-Kestner, Gouvello, Cailliot, Humann, Keller, Ehrmann, etc).