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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER X
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To-day they have again disappeared.

Lamb is, however, freely offered for sale, and curiously enough, at the same time, live dogs are becoming scarce.
Several Ultras have been elected mayors of the different arrondissements; among them Citizen Mottu, who was turned out of his mayorship about a fortnight ago because he refused to allow any child to attend a place of worship except with his own consent.

It is all very well for M.Jules Favre to say that the election of mayors is a negation of a Commune.

As I understand it, a Commune is but a council of elected mayors.

If the Government loses its popularity, the new mayors will become a Commune.


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