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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER X
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In Belleville the elected mayor is a prisoner, and his two adjuncts, Flourens and Milliere, are in hiding.

In the nineteenth arrondissement M.Delescluze, by far the most able of the Ultras, is mayor.

Contrary to the wishes, consequently, of the voters of "oui," we are to have no armistice, and we probably shall have a commune.

The Ultras are persecuted, but their programme is adopted.
There appears to be a tacit truce between all parties within the city until Trochu has made some attempt to carry out his famous plan.

For the last fortnight the Government has not published any news which it may have received from the Provinces.


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