A witness says: 'In the courtyards of the houses, they shot even the horses and dogs.' "In the house next Frascati's, at the corner of Rue Richelieu, the soldiers were coolly going to shoot even the women and children, who were already drawn up in a mass before a platoon for that purpose when a colonel arrived.

He stopped the massacre, boxed up these poor trembling creatures in the Passages des Panoramas, where he locked them in, and saved them.

A celebrated writer, Monsieur Lireux, after having escaped the first balls, was led about, during an hour, from one guard-house to another, preparatory to being shot.

It required a miracle to save him.

The celebrated artist, Sax, who happened to be in the musical establishment of M.Brandus, was about to be shot, when a general recognized him.