No! when the day arrived they would hide themselves in their houses, or shut their eyes to such a hateful sight.

But by the 1st of March a change had come over the fickle Parisians, for at an early hour the sidewalks were jammed with people, and the windows and doors of the houses filled with men, women, and children eager to get a look at the conquerors.

Only a few came in the morning, however--an advance-guard of perhaps a thousand cavalry and infantry.

The main column marched from the Arc-de-Triomphe toward the middle of the afternoon.

In its composition it represented United Germany--Saxons, Bavarians, and the Royal Guard of Prussia--and, to the strains of martial music, moving down the Champ Elysees to the Place de la Concorde, was distributed thence over certain sections of the city agreed upon beforehand.