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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XV
16/61

What we have given is sufficient to prove that our Government is tolerating within our walls correspondents who furnish the enemy with daily information.

What they say is absurd, perhaps, but it ought not to be allowed." Does the _Gaulois_ really imagine that the German generals would have raised the siege in despair had they not learnt that, as a rule, the Parisians do not study the map of the environs of the city?
Old Vinoy has issued an order of the day denouncing the conduct of the soldiers and officers who ran away when the Prussians issued from the cellars at Villa Evrard.

It requires a great deal of courage just now to praise the Line, and to find fault with the National Guard.

But General Vinoy is a thorough soldier, and stands no nonsense.

If anything happens to Trochu, and he assumes the command-in-chief, I suspect the waverers of the National Guard will have to choose between fighting and taking off their uniforms.


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