CHAPTER XVII.

Mob seize Hôtel de Ville.--"Thanksgiving" in Paris.--Prices of Food.--Paris Rats.--Menagerie Meat.--Horse-meat.--Eatable only as Mince.--Government Interference.--Sorties.--Are Failures.--Le Bourget taken by French.--Retaken by Prussians.--French Naval Officers.--Belleville National Guard.--Their Poetry. --Blundering.--Sheridan's Opinion of German Army 207