CHAPTER V.
_October 5th._ From a military, or rather an engineering point of view, Paris is stronger to-day than it was two weeks ago.

The defences have been strengthened.

With respect, however, to its defenders, they are much what they were.

The soldiers of the line and the marines are soldiers; the Mobiles and the Nationaux, with some few exceptions, remain armed citizens.

Each battalion is an _imperium in imperio_.