Never was a man more unfit to defend a great capital.

"Why do you not act with energy against the Ultras ?" said my friend.

"I wish," replied Trochu, "to preserve my power by moral force." This is all very well, but can the commander of a besieged town be said to have preserved his power when he allows himself to be imprisoned by a mob for six hours, and then does not venture to punish its leaders?
Professor Fustel de Coulanges has written a reply to Professor Mommsen.

He states the case of France with respect to Alsace very clearly.

"Let Prussia double the war-tax she imposes on France, and give up this iniquitous scheme of annexation," ought to be the advice of every sincere friend of peace.