We are back again now in the midst of all the miseries of the 13th and 14th centuries.

The memory of to-day will be written on the hearts of our children.

'It was the year,' they will say, 'when we received no presents, when we did not kiss our father, because of the Prussians.
They shall pay for it!' Let us hope that the payment will commence this very day.

But if we are still to be vanquished, we will leave to our children the memory of our wrongs, and the care to avenge them." The following article is from the _Verite_:-- "What troubles would not have been spared to our unhappy country if only it had been told the truth.

If only anyone had been courageous enough to tell us what were our resources when Grammont made his famous declaration from the tribune, the war would not have taken place.