On the Champ de Mars I found troops returned from Clamart.

They complain that they never saw their officers during the engagement, that there were no scouts in the Bois de Clamart, and that the Prussians succeeded by their old game of sticking to the cover.

At first they fell back--the French troops pressed on, when they were exposed to a concentric fire.

From the Champs Elysees I drove to the Buttes de Montmartre.

Thousands of people clustered everywhere except where they were kept off by the Nationaux, who were guarding the batteries.