[Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris by Henry Labouchere]@TWC D-Link bookDiary of the Besieged Resident in Paris CHAPTER IV 17/32
the kilo.; cauliflowers, 1.50fr.a head; salt butter 9fr.
the kilo, (a kilo, is about two pounds); a fat chicken 10fr.; a thin one, 5fr.; a rabbit, 11fr.; a duck, 9fr.; a fat goose, 20fr. Rents, too, are as vexed a question as they are in Ireland.
In a few days the October term comes due.
Few can pay it; it is proposed, therefore, to allow no landlord to levy it either before the close of the siege or before December. General Trochu, in his Rapport Militaire of yesterday's proceedings, expands his despatch of yesterday evening.
The object, he says, was, by a combined action on both banks of the Seine, to discover precisely in what force the enemy was in the villages of Choisy-le-Roi and Chevilly. Whilst the brigade of General Giulham drove the enemy out of Chevilly, the head of the column of General Blaise entered the village of Thiais, and seized a battery of cannon, which, however, could not be moved for want of horses.
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