Pinfire Revolver (6 Shots), 7 Mm Caliber Engraved F S - Francisque Sarcey (1827-1899)
Ebony stock plates
Double action, folding trigger, Liège hallmark and the letter P crowned on the barrel and also appears under the ejector rod guide.
On the top of the barrel the inscription "Siège de Paris 1870-1871"
Monogrammed F S au tonnerre soit Francisque SARCEY (1827-1899)
Barrel length: 85 mm
Overall length: 180 mm
in a mahogany-stained case , with red velvet inner lining with iron ramrod .
On the top of the lid, inlaid a copper plate bearing the inscription.
"A FRANCISQUE SARCEY, Siège de Paris 1870-1871"
Set dimensions: 250 mm x 115 mm x 55 mm
Very good Condition
Francisque Sarcey was a French drama critic and journalist born on October 8, 1827 in Dourdan and died on May 16, 1899 in Paris.
From 1868 to 1871, he was an almost daily contributor to the Gaulois. His articles, sometimes lively, gave rise to polemics and even led to a duel with Clément Duvernois. Enlisted in the National Guard during the siege of Paris, he draws from this experience a book of memories.
During the Commune, he publishes a weekly pamphlet, Le Drapeau tricolore. In it, he wrote a series of anti-Communard articles in which he resigned himself to the fact that "80,000 scoundrels" would have to be shot to save republican order and democracy[10], lashed out violently at Jules Vallès, "eaten away by the double cancer of hatred and laziness", and even at Victor Hugo, "the Commune's manitou".
He left Le Gaulois in 1871, when it became Bonapartist, to join XIXe siècle, a journal founded in 1871 by About, which militated for a moderate republic and against reaction. Here, he undertook vigorous campaigns against the judiciary, the administration and above all clericalism, which led to trials and convictions.
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Period: 19th century
Style: Napoleon 3rd
Condition: Excellent condition
Material: Ebony
Reference (ID): 1767656
Availability: In stock
