Author: Vandam, Albert D [ Dresden ]
Title: Men And Manners Of The Third Republic
Description: Chapman & Hall, 1904, 1st edition. Cloth, VG. [viii]+310pp, b/w frontis, 5 b/w plates, index, lightly foxed throughout with the foxing heavier on the preliminary & final pages, spine lettering dulled, corners bumped. Hardback , no dustjacket. ¶ Biographies of the leading Frenchmen of the Third Republic, who after the overthrow of the Second Empire & removal of Napoleon III ruled France from 1870 onwards. Men such as Adolphe Thiers, Léon Gambetta, Jules Simon etc. Vandam, a British born but French educated journalist knew all of the men he writes about personally.

Keywords: french history, paris commune, french third republic, franco prussian war