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THE IMPOTENCE OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY-- EVACUATION OF THE FORT OF VANVES AND OF THE VILLAGE OF ISSY --THE MANIFESTO OF THE MINORITY--THE EXPLOSION IN THE AVENUE RAPP--FALL OF THE VENDOME COLUMN 288
THE IMPOTENCE OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY-- EVACUATION OF THE FORT OF VANVES AND OF THE VILLAGE OF ISSY --THE MANIFESTO OF THE MINORITY--THE EXPLOSION IN THE AVENUE...
18. CHAPTER XXVI.19. CHAPTER XXVII.20. CHAPTER XXVIII.21. CHAPTER XXIX.22. CHAPTER XXX.23. CHAPTER XXXI.THE RESISTANCE CENTRES IN BELLEVILLE--FRIDAY, FORTY-EIGHT HOSTAGES ARE SHOT IN THE RUE HAXO--SATURDAY 27TH, THE WHOLE TWENTIETH ARRONDISSEMENT IS INVADED--THE PERE LACHAISE IS T...
24. CHAPTER XXXII.25. CHAPTER XXXIII.26. CHAPTER XXXVI._August 9, 1870._--In six days the Empire has lost three battles. Douai, Frossart, MacMahon have allowed themselves to be isolated, surprised, crashed. Alsace is lost, the Mosel...
27. CHAPTER I."Le chef du pouvoir executif, pas plus que l'Assemblee Nationale, s'appuyant l'un sur l'autre et se fortifiant l'un par l'autre, n'avaient en aucune maniere provoque l'insurrect...
28. CHAPTER II."Cette republique a ete menacee par l'Assemblee, a-t-on dit, Messieurs, quand l'insurrection a eclate, l'Assemblee ne s'etait encore signalee au point de vue politique que par d...
29. CHAPTER III.The execution was as foolish as the conception. On the 18th of March, at three o'clock in the morning, several columns dispersed in various directions to the Buttes Chaumont, Be...
30. CHAPTER IV.Paris only became aware of her victory on the morning of the 19th of March. What a change in the scene, even after all the scene-shifting in the drama enacted during these last...
31. CHAPTER V.Thus no agreement had been come to, only one of the four delegates having, from sheer weariness, given way to a certain extent. So on the morning of the 20th, when the mayor Bon...
32. CHAPTER VI.At Paris--the Central Committee, with it all the workmen and all the generous and enlightened men of the small middle-class. The Committee said, "We have but one object--the ele...
33. CHAPTER VII.The Central Committee was equal to the occasion. Its proclamations, its Socialist articles in the _Officiel_, the truculence of the mayors and deputies, had at last rallied roun...
34. CHAPTER VIII."Une portion considerable de la population et de la garde nationale de Paris sollicite le concours des departements pour le retablissement de l'ordre."--_Circulaire de M. Thiers...
35. CHAPTER IX.For some days, without any of the Parisian journals, they lived upon lying despatches of M. Thiers,[102] then looked at the signatures to the proclamations of the Central Commit...
36. CHAPTER X.Since the elections of the 8th February, the advent of the reactionists, the nomination of M. Thiers, the patched-up and shameful peace, the monarchy in prospect, the defiances...
37. CHAPTER XI.How came these latter to be chosen? All must be told, and virile truth at last substituted for the stale flattery of the old romantic school styling itself "Revolutionary." Ther...
38. CHAPTER XII.For several days their cavalry had exchanged shots with our advanced posts at Chatillon and Putteaux. We occupied Courbevoie, that commands the route to Versailles, which made t...
39. CHAPTER XIII.The paralytic Commission still continued to dose, when, on the 26th, Espivent beat the reveille, placed the department in a state of siege, and issued a proclamation _a la_ Thie...
40. CHAPTER XIV.After an armistice of seventy days, Paris again took up the struggle for France single-handed. It was no longer the territory only which she strove for, but the very ground-work...
41. CHAPTER XV.The rout of the 3rd April daunted the timorous but exalted the fervent. Battalions inert until then rose; the armament of the forts no longer lagged. Save Issy and Vanves, rathe...
42. CHAPTER XVI.For the second time the situation was distinctly marked out. If the Council did not know how to define the Commune, was it not in the most unmistakable manner, and before the ey...
43. CHAPTER XVII.The glorious flame of Paris still hid these failings. One must have been enkindled by it to describe it. Beside it the Communard journals, in spite of their romanticism, show pa...
44. CHAPTER XVIII.The insufficiency and the weakness of the Executive Commission became so shocking, that on the 20th the Council decided to replace it by the delegates of the nine commissions, a...
45. CHAPTER XIX.M. Thiers was fully acquainted with the failings of the Commune, but he also knew the weakness of his army. Besides, he piqued himself upon playing the soldier before the Prussi...
46. CHAPTER XX.The last act of the second Executive Commission was to name Rossel delegate at War. On the same evening (the 30th April) it sent for him. He came at once, recited the history of...
47. CHAPTER XXI."La plus grande infamie dont l'histoire moderne ait garde la souvenir, s'accomplit a cette heure, Paris est bombarde." --Jules Favre, Jules Simon, E. Picard, Trochu, Jules Ferry...
48. CHAPTER XXII.The Commune had given rise to the various trades of the plot-monger, the betrayer of gates, the conspiracy-broker. Vulgar sharpers, Jonathan Wilds of the gutter, whom a shadow o...
49. CHAPTER XXIII.On the 19th March, what remained to M. Thiers wherewith to govern France? He had neither an army, nor cannon, nor the large towns. These possessed arms, and their workmen were o...
50. CHAPTER XXIV.THE IMPOTENCE OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE OF PUBLIC SAFETY-- EVACUATION OF THE FORT OF VANVES AND OF THE VILLAGE OF ISSY--THE MANIFESTO OF THE MINORITY--THE EXPLOSION IN THE AVENUE...
51. CHAPTER XXV.He who has breathed in thy life that fiery fever of contemporaneous history, who has panted on thy boulevards and wept in thy faubourgs, who has sung to the morns of thy revolut...
52. CHAPTER XXVI.The great attack approached; the Assembly drew up in battle-array. On the 16th May it refused to recognise the Republic as the Government of France, and voted public prayers by...
53. CHAPTER XXVII.At two o'clock Dombrowski arrived at the Hotel-de-Ville, pale, dejected, his chest bruised with stones ploughed up by shot. He told the Committee of Public Safety of the entry o...
54. CHAPTER XXVIII.The defenders of the barricades slept on their paving-stones. The hostile outposts were on the watch. At the Batignolles the Versaillese reconnaissance carried off a sentinel. T...
55. CHAPTER XXIX.The defenders of the barricades, already without reinforcements and munitions, were now left even without food, and altogether thrown on the resources of the neighbourhood. Many...
56. CHAPTER XXX.A few thousand men could not indefinitely hold a line of battle several miles long. When night had set in, many Federals abandoned their barricades in order to snatch a little r...
57. CHAPTER XXXI."Le commandant Segoyer a ete pris par les scelerats qui defendaient la Bastille, et, sans respect des lois de la guerre, a ete immediatement fusille"--_M. Thiers aux Prefets, le...
58. CHAPTER XXXII.Order reigned in Paris. Everywhere ruins, death, sinister crepitations. The officers walked provokingly about clashing their sabres; the non-commissioned officers imitated their...
59. CHAPTER XXXIII.From the wholesale fusillades one may guess the number of arrests. It was a furious razzia; men, women, children, Parisians, provincials, foreigners, a crowd of people of all se...
60. CHAPTER XXXIV.The human lakes of Versailles and Satory were soon overflowing. From the first days of June the prisoners were filed off to the seaports and crowded into cattle-waggons, the awn...
61. CHAPTER XXXV."A Versailles, tous les moyens ont ete employes pour assurer l'instruction la plus serieuse, la plus attentive, la plus complete de tous les proces qui ont ete juges.... Je tien...
62. CHAPTER XXXVI."Les deportes sont plus heureux que nos soldats, car nos soldats ont des factions a faire ... tandis que le deporte vit au milieu des fleurs de son jardin."--_Discours de l'Amir...