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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER XVI
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Another proclamation has been posted, purporting to proceed from the "delegates of the twenty arrondissements," calling upon the population to turn out Trochu.

It has attracted little notice.

Several mayors, too, it is reported, have threatened to resign unless more energetic counsels prevail in high places.

Frenchmen, however, as one of their statesmen said, cannot grasp two ideas at a time, and for to-day at least the bombardment is the all-absorbing idea.

Whether Frederick Charles has been really defeated I do not know, but we are all assured that he has been.


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