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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XV
12/61

An ambulance cart went up to a barricade this morning which crosses the main street, when a Prussian sentinel emerged and ordered it to go back immediately.

Behind Le Bourget, a little to the right, is a heavy Prussian battery at Le Blanc Mesnel which entirely commands it.
The Line and the Mobiles bitterly complain that they, and not the marching battalions, are exposed to every danger.

The soldiers, and particularly those of the Mobiles, say that if they are to go on fighting for Paris, the Parisians must take their fair share in the battles.

As for the marching battalions, they are, as soldiers, worth absolutely nothing.

The idea of their assaulting, with any prospect of success, any positions held by artillery, is simply ludicrous.


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