1885, file around the Tonkin campaign: two... - Lot 15 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés

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1885, file around the Tonkin campaign: two... - Lot 15 - Beaussant Lefèvre & Associés
1885, file around the Tonkin campaign: two silver commemorative medals, one with ribbon, 30 mm, with the patent of the Ministry of War in the name of "Joffre Joseph Jacques Césaire, captain 1st class of the Engineers" dated November 21, 1885; an astonishing letter from Father Lecornu (1856-1922), parish priest of Hanoi Cathedral, former captain of the Engineers under the orders of the future Marshal, dated September 17, 1911: "Do you remember, my General, when, as a young captain, you looked at Marshal Canrobert with an envious eye and he said to you: 'Captain, would you like to change with me? "you answered: "Oh yes! Mister Marshal;" And he: "You would be wrong, it is so beautiful, the youth!" Youth has changed into maturity, you have become more than him, except for the stick that the great campaign would give you ... that we dare not wish! "; the order of the division 70 citing the action of Captain Joffre who "directed the work of the siege with an intelligence and composure worthy of the highest praise"; a booklet of Captain Joffre "on the types of barracks to be adopted for Tonkin", Berger-Levrault, Paris 1889
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