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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER III
15/44

I raised my hat to salute these soldiers of liberty, but there was no response from them.

Malet would have raised the kepi of one of the captains with a bullet, and he would have done well.

Let us be without pity.

Vive Marat! We will do justice ourselves...." The ultra-Republicans, of the stamp of M.Blanqui and M.Felix Pyat, seem to be under the impression that it is far more important to establish a Republican form of Government in France than to resist the Prussians.

In the meetings which they hold every evening they clamour for the election at once of a municipality, because they hope to become themselves members of it, and then to absorb all the power which is now wielded by the Provisional Government.


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