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Surrender of Napoleon III on Sept 2nd 1870 – Antique Print

Surrender of Napoleon III on Sept 2nd 1870 — historic image
Surrender of Napoleon III on Sept 2nd 1870. Historic image from the Europe collection.

(Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic image of Surrender of Napoleon III on Sept 2nd 1870. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Surrender of Napoleon III on Sept 2nd 1870

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Napoleon III's surrender at Sedan on September 2, 1870, is the event this picture records, and it marks a turning point in the Franco-Prussian War. Trapped with his army after the fighting around Sedan, the emperor gave himself up to Prussian King Wilhelm I, and the defeat led directly to the collapse of the Second French Empire. Within days, Parisians declared a republic, and the war dragged on for months more. Pictures of the meeting were popular at the time, so it is worth looking at how the artist arranged the two rulers and the officers around them.

Original scan9,186 × 7,312 px · prints to 31 × 24 in at 300 dpi
Reference02713u

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