Ludovic Halèvy - Ludovico Marchetti - Alfred Paris
This original book was titled : RECITS DE GUERRE, L'INVASION 1870 - 1871 with 245 pages and illustrated with 158 engravings and drawings by L. Marchetti and Alfred Paris - Includes 19 colored plates - Four Double Spreads - many highly detailed Black and White Drawings including Eight Double Spreads - A Classic Account of the Franco-Prussian War. Publishing in the 1892 from Boussod et Valadon Editeur at Paris.
The author of the text was Ludovic Halèvy, born 1 January 1834 - and died 8 May 1908. He was an appreciate French author and playwright. Halévy remained for all his life an assiduous frequenter of the Academy, the Conservatoire, the Comédie Française, and the Society of Dramatic Authors. His last romance, Kari Kari, appeared in 1892.
Ludovico Marchetti Born in Rome on May 10 1853 and died in Paris on 1909 He was an accomplished painter and draughtsman who specialized in genre scenes. Marchetti painted in both Italy and in France.
Worked as an illustrator for a popular reprinting of classic Shakespearean plays such as Othello and Romeo and Juliet.
Alfred Paris was a French good illustrator as Marchetti specialized in genre scenes military and novelist.