My Days of Adventure

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Ernest Vizetelly (1853 - 1922) was in France during the Franco-Prussian War and wrote a memoir of his experiences, My days of Adventure; the fall of France, 1870-71, which also contains an autobiographical introduction. Although mostly autobiographical there is a great deal of information about the People’s War which followed the crash of Sedan and the downfall of the Second French Empire. Vizetelly discusses the outbreak of the Franco-German war, Paris to Versailles, from Versailles to Brittany, the war in the provinces, the Army of Brittany , LeMans, and the end of the war.