[Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere]@TWC D-Link bookDiary of the Besieged Resident in Paris CHAPTER XVII 41/43
_Chacun pour soi._ The Pantheon was struck yesterday.
What desecration! everyone cries; and I am very sorry for the Pantheon, but very glad that it was the Pantheon, and not me.
The world at large very likely would lose more by the destruction of the Pantheon than of any particular individual; but each particular individual prefers his own humble self to all the edifices that architects have raised on the face of the globe. I have been endeavouring to discover, whether in the councils of our rulers, the question as to what is to be done in the possible contingency of a capitulation becoming necessary, has been raised.
As far as I can hear, the contingency is not yet officially recognised as within the realms of possibility, and it has never been alluded to. General Trochu has officially announced "that the Governor of Paris will never capitulate." His colleagues have periodically said much the same thing.
The most practical of them, M.Ernest Picard, has, I believe, once or twice endeavoured to lead up to the subject, but he has failed in the attempt.
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