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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER I
22/56

At Versailles they have converted the Palais into a barrack.

Their camp fires were seen last night in the forest of Bondy.
Uhlans have made their appearance at St.Cloud.

"Fritz" has taken up his quarters at Ferrieres, the chateau of Baron Rothschild.

"William"-- we are very familiar when we speak of the Prussian Royal family--is still at Meaux.

"No thunderbolt," adds the correspondent, "has yet fallen on him." The Prussian outposts are at the distance of three kilometres from St.Denis.Near Vitry shots have been heard.


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