Collectif - 3 Albums "L'illustration" - 1847-1849

3 Albums of L'Illustration 1847-1849. Very Rare Copies - Complete edition of the famous illustrated weekly - Published in Paris, at J. Dubochet et Cie, Publishers; Publisher's modification from volume XI: A. Le Chevalier et Cie, Publishers, Paris - Folio format (28 x 37 cm) - Vol. X. from No. 236 dated September 4, 1847 to No. 261 dated February 26, 1848; 420 pages / Vol. XI. from No. 262 dated March 4, 1848 to No. 287 dated August 26, 1848, 420 pages / Vol. XII. from No. 288 dated September 2, 1848 to No. 313 dated February 24, 1849, 420 pages - Red half-leather publisher bindings with corner decorations, smooth back with title and years, illustrated with romantic motifs in gold, red paper-covered boards, pastedowns, guards and fore-edges speckled, 1260 pages - Founded in 1843, it is the first French illustrated newspaper with large circulation. Numerous recurring sections appear across all domains: National and International Politics, Military Events, the news of the Gotha and crowned heads, Travel and Discoveries, the Sciences, Literary Chronicles, Theater and Music, Fashion, Musical scores, etc. - 800 illustrations per volume in the text and on full pages, many double-page, as well as a very large number of humorous and caricatural drawings by Bertall, Cham, Henri Valentin, Edouard Renard, Gustave Doré, Edmond Morin, Gavarni, etc., contribute to the creation of these works which are also a reflection of 19th-century society on the world affairs of the time - The period from September 1847 to February 1849 corresponds to the peak of the “Spring of Peoples” in Europe, marked by the collapse of the July Monarchy in France, the emergence of democratic and national aspirations across the continent, followed by the first steps of the conservative reaction. After a phase of general euphoria, society shifts to bloody repressions and an armed counter-revolution - - Notably in 1847 (non-exhaustive list): The Offenbourg Convening (Germany), laying the foundations of protest (fundamental rights) in the German Confederation - In France, the “Banquet Campaign”: François Guizot bans political meetings. Opposition circumvents the law by organizing banquets - Major expansion of the railway in Belgium - Birth of antisepsis through the discovery by Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis - Invention of nitroglycerin by Italian chemist Ascanio Sobrero - Creation of a study class for teaching the saxophone in Paris within the Military Gymnasium - First use of chloroform in obstetrics - Publication of the foundations of Boolean algebra - - In 1848 (non-exhaustive list): Louis Pasteur discovers chirality, a fundamental advance for modern biology - The Palermo uprising (Italy): Sicilian revolt against the Bourbons of Naples - France: Louis-Philippe I abdicates on February 24. The Provisional Government immediately proclaims the Second Republic, followed in March by the establishment of universal male suffrage, and the creation of national workshops to employ the unemployed. The abolition of slavery in the colonies is formalized in April - Lamartine heads the Provisional Government of the Second Republic while Victor Hugo is elected deputy - Austria: Fall of Metternich in Vienna, his flight. The Habsburg Empire wobbles - Prussia: Berlin rising forces King Frederick William IV to promise constitutional reforms - Italy: The “Five Days” of Milan and the revolt of Venice: Northern Italy rises against Austrian occupation and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont declares war on Austria - Meeting of the very first elected German Parliament, conception of a constitution - The “Days of June” in Paris: the closing of the National Workshops triggers a massive workers’ insurrection, crushed in blood by General Cavaignac - Italian defeat at Custosa: Marshal Radetzky regains control of Lombardy - Presidential election in France: Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of Napoleon I) is elected President of the Republic with 74% of the vote - - In 1849: Proclamation of the Roman Republic: Pope Pius IX flees. Mazzini and Garibaldi proclaim a democratic republic, abolishing the temporal power of the Pope - Gold is discovered at Sutter’s Mill, triggering the famous California Gold Rush with over 100,000 people heading west - Engineer James B. Francis develops a single-flow hydraulic turbine - - Good condition, the bindings are very slightly rubbed, volume XI’s spine is detached, but the quires are firmly fixed and the interiors are fresh -

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