It no longer offered any resistance.

That same evening Mathieu (of the Drome) entered the place where the Committee of Resistance was sitting and said to us: 'We are no longer in Paris, we are no longer under the Republic; we are at Naples under the sway of King Bomba.' "From that moment, in spite of all the efforts of the committee, of the representatives, and of their courageous allies, there was, save at certain points only,--such as the barricade of the Petit-Carreau, for instance, where Denis Dussoubs, the brother of the representative, fell so heroically,--naught but a resistance which resembled the last convulsions of despair rather than a combat.

All was finished.
"The next day, the 5th, the victorious troops paraded on the boulevards.

A general was seen to show his naked sword to the people, and to exclaim: 'The Republic--here it is!' "Thus an infamous butchery, the massacre of the passers-by, was included, as a supreme necessity, in the 'measure' of the 2nd of December.

To undertake it, a man must be a traitor; to make it successful, he must be an assassin.
"It was by this proceeding that the _coup d'etat_ conquered France and overcame Paris.