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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER VI
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Trochu then decided the question in the affirmative by a threat that, if the elections were allowed to take place, he would resign.
_October 11th._ The notions of a Pall Mall dandy respecting Southwark or the Tower Hamlets are not more vague than those of the Parisian bourgeois or the Professional French journalist respecting the vast Faubourgs peopled by the working men which encircle this city.

From actual observation they know nothing of them.

They believe them to be the homes of a dangerous class--communistic and anarchical in its tendencies, the sworn foes alike of law, order, and property.

The following are the articles of faith of the journalist:--France is the world.

Paris is France.


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