You are bidding on onehandwritten, signed letter of the French journalist and patriotic writer Édouard Siebecker (1829-1901).
Dated Paris, 31. Aout 1870.
Language: French.
Addressed to a "chér débuté".
Scope: 2 of 4 pages described (13.5 x 10.5 cm).
About a M. Coulon, "un villard de 74 (?) ans, ébeniste étable depuis 50 ans", about elections...
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OverEdouard Siebecker (Source: French Wikipedia; German translation and original):
Charles-Léon-Édouard Siebecker, born on the 26th April 1829 in Saint Petersburg and died on April 19th. September 1901 in Paris, is a French patriotic journalist and writer of the second half of the 19th century. century.
Biography: Charles-Léon-Édouard Siebecker comes from a Protestant family in Alsace. His father François Siebecker, a young officer in the Grande Armée, was forced into exile in Russia in 1821 after taking part in the Belfort conspiracy. He became a professor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts and then married a girl French expatriate, Charlotte Delacroix-Lireau (or Delacroix-Loreau), reader of the Grand Duchess Hélène. After the French Revolution of 1830, the family returned to Alsace.
Édouard studied in Paris (at the Lycée Charlemagne), then in Strasbourg and in 1849 he volunteered as a fusilier in the 3rd Corps. Line infantry regiment. However, he left the army after the coup on January 2. December 1851 and became secretary to Alexandre Dumas and then to Augustin Thierry, who wrote for the first articles in Le Mousquetaire.
He was employed in the administration of the Eastern Railway Company and made his debut as a journalist in Le Figaro in 1861, where the following year he published a series of humorous articles on the railways listed under the pseudonym of François Morin. From then on he wrote articles, chronicles and stories for various newspapers. During his career, in which he sometimes used the pseudonyms Sir Edward and Jean des Gaules, he notably collaborated in L'Esprit nouveau by Gasperini (1867), in Old Paris, in La Liberté de Girardin and in the Courrier Français de Vermorel ( which he did on the 15th. March 1868) 5, at Réveil, at La Cloche, at Charivari, at Corsaire 1868, at Yellow Dwarf, in the 19th Century, at La Petite République, at the Petit Parisien, at the National (he left in 1889) 6 and from 1880 the Petit National by Hector Pessard, of which he was editor.
He is friends with Ulric de Fonvielle and Victor Noir and was one of the witnesses called to court after his murder by Pierre Bonaparte.
During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, Siebecker was a captain in the General Staff of the National Guard. After the revolution of the 4th In September he was appointed secretary of the cabinet of the mayor of Paris, but soon resigned from this post to resume service in the Seine artillery as chief adjutant of the war batteries. During the uprising of January 22nd In January 1871, he helped prevent insurgents from seizing the sixty cannons of the National Guard Artillery Park on the median of Notre Dame.
After the war, he was the author of numerous patriotic stories, often intended for schoolchildren, in which he lamented the loss of Alsace-Lorraine, becoming one of the main authors of the revanchist movement. In 1873 he had published L'Alsace, a history book in which he sought to explain the Gallic origins and French patriotism of this lost province. At 4. In February 1880, as a silver medalist from the National Society for the Promotion of Good, he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor for his edifying stories. This award was presented to him on the 29th. Awarded by Anatole de La Forge in April. As Vice President of the 18th District School District In 1881 he created a "14th arrondissement". July Prize" to encourage school children in the republican fight against the "Bastille of Ignorance" 8. As a Freemason, he was speaker of the Alsatian-Lorraine Lodge in 1878.
Siebecker among the guests at a dinner in honor of the former protesting deputy Antoine from Metz on March 24th. March 1889 at the Grand Hôtel.
In the parliamentary elections on 21 In August 1881, Siebecker stood against the radical Alfred Talandier, the outgoing deputy of the 2nd Sceaux constituency, as the "Republican government candidate" of the "Left" 10. In the competition with Steenackers, who presented themselves under the banner of the Republican Union with a neighboring label11, he only took third place in the first round, while Talandier was re-elected.
He is a member of the steering committee of the General Association of Alsace-Lorraine12 and the Patriot League (LDP) and works on its Le Drapeau committee. However, he distanced himself from the LDP in December 188713 when Paul Déroulède began to put it at the service of the Boulangist movement. After he and 18 more of the 30 members of the steering committee finally left the LDP in April-May 1888, he founded a new nationalist and revanchist league with them, the Patriotic Union of France. Determinedly opposed to the baker, Siebecker chaired a National Republican Association campaign committee for the 1889 general election.
In 1894 he became general secretary of the Association of Gambettists, founded to preserve the memory of Léon Gambetta, especially on the occasion of Republican "pilgrimages" to the Jardies.
In 1892, when he was both assistant office manager in the commercial department of the Compagnie de l'Est and editor-in-chief of Le Petit National, Siebecker started a weekly newspaper for railway staff, Le Chemin de fer.
He is married to Émilie-Claudine Légé1 (approx. 1839-1917) and father of two daughters, Jeanne and Charlotte-Émilie-Léonie. The second wife was the engineer of Ponts et Chaussées Henri-Marie-Philippe Maréchal (1859–1933) in 1884.
Édouard Siebecker died on the 19th. September 1901 in his house at Avenue Carnot No. 321. Two days later, after a funeral at the Temple of the Star, he was buried in Montmartre cemetery.
Charles-Léon-Édouard Siebecker, who was born in Saint-Pétersbourg on April 26, 1829 and died in Paris on September 19, 1901, is a journalist and French patriotic writer in the second world of the 19th century.
Biography: Charles-Léon-Édouard Siebecker is the author of a Protestant family from Alsace. Son père, François Siebecker, young officer of the Grande Armée, available for exile in Russia before he was part of the Belfort conspiracy in 1821. Devenu professor at the Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, who is also available as a French expatriate girl, Charlotte Delacroix-Lireau (or Delacroix-Loreau)1, lecturer by the grande-duchesse Hélène2. The family retired in Alsace after the French Revolution of 1830.
Student in Paris (at Lycée Charlemagne) from Strasbourg, Édouard became a volunteer in 1849, serving as a fusilier in the 3rd Infantry Regiment. The quitte cependant the army à la suite du Coup d'État du 2 December 1851 and devient the secretary of Alexandre Dumas and Augustin Thierry, rédigeant pour le premier quelques articles dans Le Mousquetaire.
Employed by the administration of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Est, il fait véritablement ses débuts de journaliste en 1861 au Figaro, also il fournit l'année suivante une série d'articles humoristiques sur les chemins de fer signée du pseudonyme de François Morin. These stories, the rédige des articles, des chroniques et des contes pour divers journaux. Au cours de sa carrière, pendant laquelle il utilise quelquefois les pseudonymes de Sir Edward3 and Jean des Gaules4, il collabore notamment à L'Esprit nouveau de Gasperini (1867), à La Vie Parisienne, à La Liberté de Girardin, au Courrier français de Vermorel (qu'il quitte le 15 Mars 1868)5, au Réveil, à La Cloche, au Charivari, au Corsaire de 1868, au Nain jaune, au XIXe siècle, à La Petite République, au Petit Parisien, au National (qu' il quitte en 1889) et, à partir de 1880, au Petit National d'Hector Pessard, dont il est le rédacteur en chef.
Ami d'Ulric de Fonvielle and de Victor Noir, il est, après l'assassinat de ce dernier par Pierre Bonaparte, l'un des témoins cités au procès.
Counterpart of the Franco-German War of 1870, Siebecker became captain of the Major General of the National Guard. After the revolution of September 4th, the secretary of the cabinet of the mayor of Paris was appointed to the post of representative of the service in the artillery of the Seine in tant to the captain of the adjudant-major of the batteries of the guerre. Lors du soulèvement du 22 janvier 1871, il contribute à empêcher les insurgés de s'emparer des soixante canons du parc d'artillerie de la Garde Nationale sur le terre-plein de Notre-Dame.
After the war, the author of the names récits patriotiques, souvent destinés aux écoliers, dans lesquels il déplore la perte de l'Alsace-Lorraine, devenant ainsi l'un des principaux auteurs du movement revanchiste. In 1873, the author was published, according to the title L'Alsace, récits historiques d'un patriote, un livre d'histoire dans lequel il compte démontrer l'origine Gauloise et le patriotisme français de this province perdue. Médaillé d'argent de la Société Nationale d'encouragement au bien pour ses récits édifiants, il est chevalier de la Légion d'honneur le 4 fevrier 1880. This decoration is remised from 29 a.m. to Anatole de La Forge. Vice-president of the college of schools in the 18th district, the crée in 1881 and "prix du 14 juillet" to encourage les écoliers in the combat républicain against the "bastille de l'ignorance"8. Franc-maçon, the orator of the Alsace-Lorraine lodge in 1878.
Siebecker parmi les convives d'un diner en l'honneur d'Antoine, former député protestataire de Metz, on 24 Mars 1889 at the Grand-Hôtel.
Aux élections législatives du 21 août 1881, Siebecker was present against the radical Alfred Talandier, deputy sortant of the 2nd circuit of Sceaux, in tant que candidate « républicain gouvernemental » de la « Gauche »10. Concurrence by Steenackers, who present with an etiquette voisine11 sous the bannière de l'Union républicaine, il n'arrive qu'en troisième position au premier tour, tandis que Talandier est réélu.
Member of the Comité Director of the Association General of Alsace-Lorraine12 and of the Celui de la League des Patriotes (LDP), the collaboration with the organs of this series, Le Drapeau. The following distances have been reached with the LDP on December 188713, when Paul Déroulède began the meeting with the service of the movement. On April-May 1888, before the final declaration of the LDP with 18 and 30 members of the Comité Director, the foundation with a new league nationalist and revanchiste, the Union Patriotique de France. Résolument anti-boulangiste, Siebecker president and committee électoral de l'Association Nationale républicaine en vue des législatives de 18891. In 1894, the General Secretary of the Association of Gambettists, fond of receiving the souvenir of Léon Gambetta, was notified of the occasion of the "Pélerinages" républicains aux Jardies.
In 1892, when he was appointed sous-chef de bureau au service commercial de la Compagnie de l'Est et rédacteur en chef du Petit National, Siebecker lance un hebdomadaire destiné au personnel des voies ferrées, Le Chemin de fer.
Marié à Émilie-Claudine Légé1 (v.1839-1917), the father of two girls, Jeanne and Charlotte-Émilie-Léonie. The second épouse in 1884 was the engineer of the Ponts and Chaussées, Henri-Marie-Philippe Maréchal (1859-1933).
Édouard Siebecker died on September 19, 1901 at his home at number 32 on the avenue Carnot1. The surlendemain, after the obsèques celebrated at the temple of the Etoile, is inhumed at the cemetery of Montmartre.
Références: État civil du 17e arrondissement de Paris, registre des décès, acte no 2024 du 20 September 1901.
Le Monde artiste, September 29, 1901, p. 625.
Georges d'Heilly, 'Dictionnaire des pseudonymes, new édition augmentée, Paris, Dentu, 1887, p. 135-136.
Henri Avenel, La Presse française au vingtième siècle: portraits et biographies, Paris, Flammarion, 1901, p. 601.
Journal des débats, 28 Mars 1868, p. 2.
Le Figaro, 11 aout 1889, p. 2.
Les Grands procès politiques. Pierre Bonaparte. Meurtre de Victor Noir. Seul compte rendu revu par les defenseurs de la famille Noir, Paris, Armand Le Chevalier, p. 88.
Louis Lucipia, La Caisse des écoles de Montmartre: histoire, organization, fonctionnement, Paris, 1889, p. 130-131.
E. Davesne, La Franc-maçonnerie au pouvoir (1789-1880), Paris, Victor Palmé, 1881, p. 93.
Le Gaulois, 22 August 1881, p. 2.
Journal des débats, 18 août 1881, p. 2.
Journal des débats, 18 April 1888, p. 2.
Journal des débats, December 3, 1887, p. 3.
Journal des débats, 27 Mars 1889, p. 2.
Journal des débats, 6 January 1895, p. 3.
Le Journal des transports, October 15, 1892, p. 516.
Le Figaro, May 19, 1884, p. 4.
Le Journal, September 21, 1901, p. 6.
Oeuvres
Physiology of the chemins de fer, Paris, Hetzel, 1867.
Cocottes et petits crevés (designs by Alfred Grévin), Paris, Armand Le Chevalier, 1867.
Pamphlets d'un franc-parleur, Paris, Armand Le Chevalier, 1868.
Les Enfants malheureux (design by Gérard Seguin), Paris, P. Dupont, 1869.
À travers la vie, histoires du dimanche, Paris, 1872.
L'Alsace, récits historiques d'un patriote (illustrations by Frédéric Lix), Paris, F. Polo, 1873.
Mœurs du jour (illustrations by A. Fleury), Paris, A. Lacroix, 1874.
Les Fédérés blancs, épisode de la defense de l'Alsace in 1814 et 1815, Paris, Librairie illustrée, 1875.
La Grande brulée, feuilleton paru dans Le Petit Parisien à partir du 21 April 1877.
Les Grands jours de l'Alsace: entretiens d'un père alsacien, Paris, Cinqualbre, 1879.
Le Baiser d'Odile, Maurice Dreyfous, 1880.
Poésies d'un vaincu: Noëls alsaciens-lorrains - Poèmes de fer, Paris/Nancy, Berger-Levrault, 1882.
Récits héroïques, Paris, Marpon et Flammarion, 1887.