The newspaper which I have just bought, I see, says that two shells have fallen close by the Invalides, and that they have been coming in pretty thickly all along the zone near the southern ramparts.
This may or may not be the case.

Like Herodotus in Egypt, I make a distinction between what I am told and what I see, and only guarantee the authenticity of the latter.

The only house which as far as I could perceive had been struck was a small one.

A chimney-stack had been knocked over; an old lady who inhabited it pointed this out to me.

She seemed to be under the impression that this was the result of design, and plaintively asked me what she had done to "William" and to Bismarck that they should knock over her chimney.