I was in a shop when a person came in with it.

Shopkeeper, assistants, and customers immediately performed a war dance round a stove; one would have supposed that the war was over and that the veracity of Gambetta is unimpeachable.

But as though this success were not enough in itself, all the newspapers this morning tell us that "Chartres has also been retaken," that the army of Keratry has effected a junction with that of the Loire, and that in the North Bourbaki has forced the Prussians to raise the siege of Amiens.

Everyone is asking when "they" will be here.

Edmond About, in the _Soir_, eats dirt for having a few days ago suggested an armistice.
At the Quartier-General I do not think that very great importance is attached to Gambetta's despatch, except as an evidence that the provinces are not perfectly apathetic.