M.Gustave Flourens, who is the hero of these men of war, and who, although exercising no official rank in the battalion, insisted upon their accepting him as their chief, is to be brought before a Council of War.
My next-door neighbour, Franchetti, died yesterday, and was buried to-day.

He was a fine, handsome young man, well off, happily married, and, as the commander of the Eclaireurs of the Seine, has done good service during the siege.

As he was an Israelite, he was followed to the grave by the Rothschilds and many other of his co-religionists.
_December 8th._ M.de Sarcey, in the _Temps_ of to-day, enters into a lengthy argument to prove that the Parisians are heroic.

"Heroism is positive and negative," he says, "and we have, for the sake of our country, deprived ourselves during several months of the power to make money, and during this time we have existed without many of the comforts to which we are accustomed." Now, I by no means wish to undervalue the sacrifices of the Parisians, but heroism is not the word for them.

So long as there are enough provisions in the town to enable every one to live without feeling the pangs of hunger, they have no opportunity to show negative heroism.