t. Cloud, which is nothing but palace upon palace,
and garden upon garden, with great trees, and magnificent alleys, and
everything that is beautiful. At six o'clock we quitted St. Cloud to
go back to our position at Vaugirard.

The most startling rumors filled the city. The Emperor had gone to
Rochefort--they said; the King was coming back--Louis the XVIII. was
_en route_--and so forth.

They knew nothing certain in the city, where they should soonest know
everything.

The enemy attacked us in the suburbs of Issy about one o'clock in the
afternoon, and we fought till midnight for our capital.

The people aided as much as possible; they carried off the wounded from
under the enemy's fire; even the women took pity on us.

What we suffered from being driven to this, I cannot describe. I have
seen Buche himself cry because we were in one sense dishonored. I
wished I had never seen that time. Twelve days before I did not know
that France was so beautiful. But on seeing Paris with its towers and
its innumerable palaces extending as far as the horizon, I thought,
"This is France, these are the treasures that our fathers have amassed
during century after century. What a misfortune that the English and
Prussians should ever come here."

At four in the morning we attacked the Prussians with new fury, and
retook the positions we had lost the day before. Then it was that some
generals came and announced a suspension of hostilities. This took
place on the 3d of July, 1815.

We thought that this suspension was to give notice to the enemy, that
if he did not quit our country, France would rise as one man, and crush
them all as she did in '92. These were our opinions, and seeing that
the people were on our side, I remembered the general levies which Mr.
Goulden was always talking about.

But unhappily a great many were so tired of Napoleon and his soldiers,
that they sacrificed the country itself, in order to be rid of him.
They laid all the blame on the Emperor, and said, if it had not been
for him, our enemies would never have had the force or the courage to
attack us, that he had exhausted our resources, and that the Prussians
themselves would give us more liberty than he had done.

The people talked like Mr. Goulden, but they had neither guns nor
cartridges, their only weapons were pikes.

On the 4th, while we were thinking of these things, they announced to
us the armistice, by which the Prussians and Englis