The streets were absolutely deserted.

All the cafes were shut.
Nothing in the papers this morning.

In the _Figaro_ an article from that old humbug Villemessant.

He calls upon his fellow-citizens in Paris to resist to the death.
"One thing Frenchmen never forgive," he says,--"cowardice." The _Gaulois_ contains the most news.

It represents the Prussians to be all round Paris.