I counted there thirty-three corpses.

The sight was too much for me: I felt great tears rolling down my cheeks.

I asked leave to cross the road, in order to enter my own house, and my request was _granted as a favour_!' "Another witness says: 'The boulevard presented a horrible sight.

_We literally walked in blood._ We counted eighteen corpses in about five and twenty paces.' "Another witness, the keeper of a wine-shop on Rue du Sentier, says: 'I went along Boulevard du Temple to my house.

When I got home, I had an inch of blood around the bottom of my trousers.' "Representative Versigny has this to say: 'We could see, in the distance, almost as far as Porte Saint-Denis, the immense bivouac-fires of the infantry.