AUGUST 1870. Sedan. 'I want to live!'. Illustrator: Léopold Flameng. Illustration from "L'Année terrible" and part of a set of engravings published in Victor Hugo's 'Oeuvres'. Followed by 'La libération du territoire'. Book published in French by Eugène Hugues in 1879 (original edition of 1872).

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