The light from them, with the exception of that from a few rare lamps, was all we had to guide us amid that horrible carnage.
The fighting in the daytime was nothing compared to those corpses and that silence.

R.and I were half-dead with horror.

A man was passing us; hearing one of my exclamations, he came up to me, took my hand, and said: "You are a republican; and I was what is called a friend of order, a reactionary, but one must be forsaken of God, not to execrate this horrible orgy.

France is dishonoured." And he left us, sobbing.' "Another witness, who allows us to give his name, a Legitimist, the honourable Monsieur de Cherville, deposes as follows: 'In the evening, I determined on continuing my sad inspection.

On Rue Le Peletier I met Messieurs Bouillon and Gervais (of Caen).