CHAPTER XVII.
_January 7th._ The attempt of the "Ultras" to force Trochu to resign has been a failure.

On Friday bands issuing from the outer Faubourgs marched through the streets shouting "No capitulation!" A manifesto was posted on the walls, signed by the delegates of the 20 arrondissements, calling on the people to rise.

At the weekly meeting of the Mayors M.
Delescluze, the Mayor of the 19th arrondissement, proposed that Trochu and Le Flo should be called upon to resign, and that a supreme council should be established in which the "civil element should not be subordinated to the military element." M.Gustave Flourens published a letter from his prison suggesting that the people should choose as their leader a young energetic Democrat--that is to say himself.

M.Felix Pyat, on the other hand, explained that generals are tyrants, and that the best thing would be to carry on the operations of the siege without one.

The "bombardment" is, however, still the absorbing question of the day; and all these incipient attempts at revolution have failed.