Printed passport with handwritten entries.
Oblong 8vo. 1 p.
€ 75.00
Rare document issued during the Siege of Paris by the Ambulances de la Presse for a Parisian servant named Dufresne, accrediting him as a first responder and requesting free passage for him: "Laissez-Passer - Monsieur Dufresne, domestique, demeurant 7 Rue Greffhule [!] attaché aux Ambulances de la Presse, annexes du Ministère de la Guerre, pour relever les blessés sur le camp de bataille".
The Ambulances de la Presse were founded on an initiative of the French press in September 1870 after the collapse of the Second French Empire and would be active beyond the end of the war, until some weeks after the fall of the Paris Commune. The document was issued in the name of the general secretary of the Ambulances de la Presse, the famous journalist and editor at Le Figaro, Albert Dardenne de la Grangerie.
Stamped "Payé". Somewhat soiled and minor foxing, several minor tears and traces of folds.
