On our side we have approached so close to the villages along the Prussian line in this direction that one side or the other must in self-defence soon make an attack.

The newspapers of yesterday morning having asserted that Choisy-le-Roi was no longer occupied by the enemy, I went out in the afternoon to inspect matters.

I got to the end of the village of Vitry, where the advanced posts, to whom I showed my pass, asked me where I wanted to go.

I replied, to Choisy-le-Roi.

A corporal pointed to a house at some distance beyond where we were standing.