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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER VI
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Those churches which are not required by the National Guard might serve as excellent stables for the oxen, the sheep, and the hogs, which are now parked out in the open air." Next to the priests and the churches, the streets named after members and friends of the late Imperial family excite the ire of patriots.

The inhabitants of the quartier Prince Eugene, have, I read to-day, decided that the Boulevard Prince Eugene shall henceforward be called the Boulevard Dussault, "the noble child of the Haute Vienne, who was murdered by the aides of the infamous Bonaparte." We are not, as you might perhaps suppose, wanting in news.

The French journalists, even when communications with the rest of the world were open, preferred to evolve their facts from their moral consciousness--their hand has not lost its cunning.

Peasants, who play the part here of the intelligent contraband of the American civil war, bring in daily the most wonderful stories of the misery which the Prussians are suffering, and the damage which our artillery is causing them--and these tales are duly published.

Then, at least three times a week we kill a Prussian Prince, and "an army" relieves Bazaine.


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