That they are starving, that their communications with Germany are cut off, that their leaders are at loggerheads, that the Army of the Loire will soon be here to help us to demolish them, we have not the slightest doubt.

The question is no longer whether Paris will be taken--that we have solved already--it is whether the Prussians will be able to get back to the Rhine.

We are thankful that Bismarck did not accept Jules Favre's offer of a money indemnity.

We would not give a hundred francs now to ensure peace or an armistice.

I went this morning into a shop, the proprietor of which, a bootmaker, I have long known, and I listened with interest to the conversation of this worthy man with some of his neighbours who had dropped in to have a gossip, and to congratulate him on his martial achievements, as he had been on guard in a bastion.