It is a little in advance of their lines, which follow a small river called the Moree, about two kilometres in the rear.

At 5 A.M.last Friday Bourget was attacked by a regiment of Francs-tireurs and the 9th Battalion of the Mobiles of the Seine.

The Prussians were driven out of it, and fell back to the river Moree.

During the whole of Friday the Prussian artillery fired upon the village, and sometimes there was a sharp interchange of shots between the advanced posts.

On Friday night two attacks in considerable force were directed against the position, but both of them failed.