Yesterday I went into the Madeleine, where some service was going on.

It was full of Mobiles listening to the prayers of the priest.

The Breton regiments are accompanied by their priests, who bless them before they go on duty.

If the Parisians were not so thoroughly conceited, one might hope that the presence of these villagers would have a beneficial effect upon them, and show them that the Frenchmen out of Paris are worth more than those within it.

The generation of Parisians which has arrived at manhood during the existence of the Empire is, perhaps, the most contemptible that the world has ever seen.