On the previous evening 8,000 Prussians had taken the redoubt of _Villejuif_.
At one in the morning some regiments advanced from there towards Vitry, and occupied the mill of Saqui, while on the left about 5,000 established themselves on the plateau of Hautes-Bruyeres.

The division of General Maud'huy re-took these positions.

At five o'clock in the morning the Prussians tried to occupy them a second time, but failed, and at half-past seven o'clock they fell back.

At nine they attacked again, when a column of our troops, issuing from the Porte d'Italie, arrived.

The fray went on until ten o'clock, when the Prussians retreated towards Sceaux.