[Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere]@TWC D-Link bookDiary of the Besieged Resident in Paris CHAPTER III 14/44
In order that Paris, in which there is a genius which has given her the empire of the world, should fall into the hands of the barbarians, there must cease to be a God in heaven.
As God she exists, and as God she is immortal.
Paris will never surrender." When it is remembered that this ignorant, vain, foolish population has for nearly twenty years been fed with this sort of stuff, it is not surprising that even to this hour it cannot realise the fact that Paris is in any danger of being captured.
The ultra-Republican press is becoming every day more virulent.
M.Blanqui, in his organ, _La Patrie en Danger_, after praising the act of a person of the name of Malet, who last February shot an officer who refused to shout "Vive la Republique," thus continues:--"I was reminded of this when the other day I saw defile on the boulevards a regiment of rustic peasants.
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