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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XVI
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2, says:-- "Perhaps Bourbaki has gone to meet General von Werder.

If he is victorious, the road to Paris by the valley of the Seine will be open to him, or the road to Southern Germany by Besancon and Belfort, and the bridge of Bale, the neutrality of which we are not obliged to respect any more than that of Belgium, since Europe has allowed Bismarck to violate that of Luxemburg.

Ah! if Bourbaki were a Tortensen, a Wrangel, or a Turenne--perhaps he is--what a grand campaign we might have in a few weeks on the Danube, the Lech, and the Saar." The _Liberte_, of Jan.

2, says:-- "A great manifestation is being organised against the Government.

The object is to substitute in its place the college of Mayors of Paris and their adjuncts.


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