VICTOR HUGO'S FUNERAL - 1885. - Lot 445

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VICTOR HUGO'S FUNERAL - 1885. - Lot 445
VICTOR HUGO'S FUNERAL - 1885. Large albumen photographic print pasted on an album page, representing the catafalque surmounted by Victor Hugo's coffin exposed under the Arc de Triomphe, May 31, 1885, with handwritten annotations in English at the bottom of the document, translation: "Very rare photograph of the Arc when the body of Victor Hugo was exposed there. When the funeral float was still at the top of the Champs-Élysées". Good condition. H.: 17,5 cm - L.: 12,5 cm. Provenance : this photograph was taken by an English tourist, then pasted by him in his diary.
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