On emerging from St.Denis everything except the guns of the forts appeared quiet.

I had not, however, gone far in the direction of Le Bourget, which was still burning, when I was stopped by a regiment marching towards St.Denis, some of the officers of which told me that the village had been retaken by the Prussians--the artillery, too, which I had left on the rise before Drancy, had disappeared.

At a farmyard close by Drancy I saw Ducrot and his staff.
The General had his hood drawn over his head, and both he and his aide-de-camp looked so glum, that I thought it just as well not to congratulate him upon the operations of the day.

In and behind Drancy there were a large number of troops, who I heard were to camp there during the night.

None seemed exactly to know what had happened.