A DIPLOMAT’S MEMOIR OF 1870

A DIPLOMAT’S
MEMOIR OF 1870

Being the Account of a Balloon Escape from
the Siege of Paris and a Political Mission to
London and Vienna by

FREDERIC REITLINGER

Private Secretary to M. Jules Favre, Vice-President of the
Provisional Government of 1870; Avocat of the Cour
d’Appel, Paris

Translated from the French, by his Nephew,
HENRY REITLINGER
M.A. King’s Coll. Camb.

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1915


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