From Vanves I went to Villejuif, where a temporary ambulance had been erected, and the surgeons were busy with the wounded.

As soon as their wounds were dressed, they were taken in ambulance carts inside the town.

The officers and soldiers, who had not yet learnt that General Ducrot had failed to cross the Marne, were in a very bad humour at having been ordered to withdraw at the very moment when they were carrying everything before them.

They represented the Prussians as having fought like devils, and declared that they appeared to take a fiendish pleasure in killing even the wounded.

Within the town the excitement to know what had passed is intense.