mans upon
Paris. Without paying heed to his already weakened condition of health,
he set out at once for Paris. Duty called him there, as he considered,
and every other consideration was hushed. "What," his friends asked,
"could the _Revue_ do in a besieged city, separated from so large a
proportion of its readers and contributors?" Buloz was deaf to their
remonstrances, and, struggling bravely against the enormous difficulties
of his position, he managed, with the aid of a few devoted writers like
M. de Mazade and Vitel, to get the _Revue_ out regularly during all
those painful, weary weeks. When at length Paris capitulated, on the
28th of January, 1871, the world first knew to what straits the _Revue_
had been reduced. Its means had become completely exhausted. There was
no paper left, nor were there funds to replenish the stock of the
printing-office, even supposing that such a stock could have been
purchased at that time. Yet, terrible as had been the struggle to keep
up the _Revue_ during the siege, there was yet a harder task in store
for M. Buloz and his family. After the capitulation he and his
associates at once set about organizing afresh the entire machinery of
the _Revue_. This occupied some six weeks, and when all the arrangements
had been completed one contributor after another left the city. M.
Buloz, too, went away. All at once broke forth, on the 18th of March,
the Communist insurrection, and Paris for more than two months was in
the hands of the rabble. It is not too much to say that but for the
intrepidity and intelligent management of affairs by Madame Buloz the
publication of the _Revue_ must have been suspended during part, at
least, of that period. She feared nothing, but, braving the danger of
frequent journeys between Paris and Versailles, she summoned to her aid
all the contributors and friends she was able to communicate with. Of
course it was not long ere the Communist leaders perceived that true
liberty, such as they understood it, was incompatible with the existence
of such an outspoken periodical as the _Revue_. They arrested M. Emile
Beaussaire for his courageous article entitled "Le proces entre Paris et
la Province," and the other contributors, as well as M. Buloz himself,
would have certainly shared the same fate could they have been found.

After the number of the 15th of May had appeared the rulers of the city
voted that the continuance of the _Revue_ was prejudicial to the
interests