3-053-469 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Outside the Grand Trianon [at Versailles] during the trial of Marshal Bazaine, 1873. 'The letters of our Paris Correspondent will relate the progress from day to day of Marshal Bazaine's trial by the court-martial, upon the indictment preferred by order of the National Assembly against him for misconduct in his surrender of the imperial army and fortress at Metz three years ago...A couple of gendarmes form the guard which daily conducts this distinguished State prisoner to and fro between the Grand Trianon and the ville of Trianon-sous-Bois, where he resides under arrest pending his trial'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.