My Days of Adventure

Ernest Alfred Vizetelly (1853-1922) was the son of the English publisher Henry Vizetelly. He published a mutilated version of his father's novel entitled The Fat and the Thin in 1896. "While this volume is largely of an autobiographical character, it will be found to contain also a variety of general information concerning the Franco-German War of 1870-71, more particularly with respect to the second part of that great struggle-the so-called "People's War" which followed the crash of Sedan and the downfall of the Second French Empire. If I have incorporated this historical matter in my book, it is because I have repeatedly noticed in these later years that, whilst English people are conversant with the main facts of the Sedan disaster and such subsequent outstanding events as the siege of Paris and the capitulation of Metz."