[Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere]@TWC D-Link bookDiary of the Besieged Resident in Paris CHAPTER X 40/54
After the scene of last Monday General Vinoy reproached Trochu for having tamely submitted to arrest and insult by a mob for several hours, and strongly hinted that a French general owed it to his cloth not to allow his decorations to be torn from his breast.
It is said by General Vinoy's friends that those observations are mainly the cause why he has been deprived of his independent command, and placed under the orders of General Ducrot, with respect to whose evasion from Sedan many French officers shake their heads. I cannot help thinking that the result of the vote of the army on Thursday last is only relatively correct.
Line, Mobile, and Marines do not amount to 250,000 men, unless I am very much mistaken.
The Second Army, under Ducrot, will number about 110,000 men. The English at last are about to leave.
They are very indignant at having been, as they say, humbugged so long, and loud in their complaints against their Embassy.
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