[Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere]@TWC D-Link bookDiary of the Besieged Resident in Paris CHAPTER II 2/52
Neither French nor Prussians would, they were convinced, stop them.
I did not even confide a letter to their hands, as they are certain, even if they get through the French outposts, to be arrested by the Prussians and turned back.
Yesterday on the return of Jules Favre he announced that the King of Prussia required as a condition of Peace the cession of Alsace and Lorraine, and as the condition of an armistice immediate possession of Metz, Strasburg, and Mont Valerien.
The Government immediately met, and a proclamation was at once posted on the walls signed by all the members.
After stating it had been reported that the Government was inclined to abandon the policy to which it owed its existence, it goes on in the following words:--"Our policy is this. Neither an inch of our territory nor a stone of our fortresses.
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