The boulevards, the theatres, some fifty writers on the press, and the bourgeoisie of the fashionable quarters of the city, are Paris.

Within this narrow circle he may reason justly, but he never emerges from it, and consequently cannot instruct others about what he does not know himself.

Since the fall of the Emperor, the Parisian bourgeois has vaguely felt that he has been surrounded by two hostile armies--the Prussian without the walls, and the working men within.

He has placed his trust in Trochu, as twenty years ago he did in Cavaignac.

The siege had not lasted a week before he became convinced that the Prussians were afraid of him, because they had not attacked the town; and within the last few days he has acquired the conviction, upon equally excellent grounds, that the working men also tremble before his martial attitude.
On Friday last he achieved what he considers a crowning triumph, and he is now under the impression that he has struck terror into the breasts of the advocates of the Commune by marching with his battalion to the Hotel de Ville.