2-358-659 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Sergeant Hoff, French soldier, 1872. Ignace Hoff was a hero of the Franco-Prussian War, who later became a caretaker of the Arc de Triomphe. A monument to him stands in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris.