Les francs-tireurs de l'armée oubliée

"The nineteenth century! Century of progress and innovation in all fields. But for France, a century also woven violent revolts, bloody revolutions, and wars, with among them, that of 70, which allowed Prussia to weld around a new Reich, preparing the tragedy of the Commune and posing the ferments of the European disasters to come. Abandoning everything behind them, freemasters rose at Toulouse, Marseilles, Castres, Mulhouse, and other towns and villages of France. Others arrived from beyond the seas. In spite of their geographical, cultural and social diversities, they knew how to assemble the authority of an officer of Breton sailor leaving Rennes behind the embroidered ermine banner." --Translated from back cover