2-982-097 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The late M. Ricard, French Minister of the Interior, 1876. Engraving from a photograph by M. Pierre Petit, of the Place Cadet. 'The death of this esteemed French Liberal politician, who held the office of Minister of the Interior, was mentioned by our Paris correspondent last week. The funeral ceremony...[was held] at the Church of St. Augustine, previous to the removal of his body to Niort, in the Gironde, where he was born and was to be interred...He was a consistent Moderate Republican throughout his life, and a very trustworthy and useful man...M. Ricard was forty-eight years of age'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.