brandy into the glasses and
petroleum on the houses! But, in the first moment of victory, were there
no mistakes? Were those that were shot all guilty? Then the sight of
these executions, however merited, was cruelly painful. The innocent
shuddered at the doom of justice. True, Paris is quiet now, but it is
the quiet of the battle-field on the morrow of a victory; quiet as
night, and as the tomb! An unsupportable uneasiness oppresses us; shall
we ever be able to shake off this apathy, to pierce through this gloom?
Paris, rent and bleeding, turns with sadness from the past, and dares
not yet raise her eyes to the future!

[Illustration: THE NEW MASTERS

PROCLAMATION OVER PROCLAMATION

PUBLIC PROMENADES.

CAMPS IN THE GARDENS OF THE LUXEMBOURG AND THE TUILERIES--THE SOLDIERS
LOCKED IN, AND THE PUBLIC LOCKED OUT.

The damage done to the pier was by a Prussian shell in Jan. 1871.]

[Illustration]

[Illustration: PALACE OF THE LUXEMBOURG (STREET FRONT). NOW THE SEAT OF
THE PREFECTURE OF PARIS.]

POOR PARIS!

[Illustration]

On August 15th, the _Times_ reporter gave the number awaiting trial
at Versailles at 30,000. On the 7th September they had reached
39,000, daily arrests adding to the number; out of these, 35,000
only had their charges made out, of which 13,900 had been examined,
2,800 writs of release having been issued, though only a few
hundreds have been set at liberty. There are only 94 reporting
officers: 20 attached to the Council of War, 6 to the Orangerie, 4
to Satory, 3 to the Prison des Femmes, and 16 to the Western Ports:
17 more are to be added shortly.

[Illustration: MARSHAL MACMAHON, Duc de Magenta.

Commander-in-chief of the Army of Versailles.]

[Illustration: LIGHT & AIR ONCE MORE]

[Illustration: THE FOSSE COMMUNE--THE END]

[Illustration: PARIS VERSAILLES]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 112: See Appendix 15, 16, 17, and 18.]

APPENDIX.

CHRONOLOGY OF THE PARISIAN INSURRECTION,

FROM THE 18th OF MARCH TO THE 29th MAY, 1871.

The dash (--) in each day after the commencement of military operations
divides the civil from the military.

_Saturday, 18th March_: Early in the morning troops take possession of
the Buttes Montmartre and Belleville. The soldiers charged with the
recovery of the pieces of artillery fraternise with the people and the
National Guard. Arrest of Generals Lecomte and Clement Thomas: they are
shot at Montmartre wi