commands, I am being asked to grant audiences,
office-seekers are asking me for places. I reply: "I am nobody."

I saw Captain Feval, husband of Fanny, the sister of Alice. * He was a
prisoner of war, and was released on parole.

* Wife of Charles Hugo.

All the newspapers publish my "Appeal to the Germans."

September 10.--D'Alton-Shee and Louis Ulbach lunched with us. Afterwards
we went to the Place de la Concorde. At the foot of the flower-crowned
statue of Strasburg is a register. Everybody comes to sign the
resolution of public thanks. I inscribed my name. The crowd at once
surrounded me. The ovation of the other night was about to recommence. I
hurried to my carriage.

Among the persons who called upon me was Cernuschi.

September 11.--Received a visit from Mr. Wickham Hoffman, Secretary of
the United States Legation. Mr. Washburne, the American Minister, had
requested him to ask me whether I did not think that some good might
result were he to intervene *officiously* and see the King of Prussia. I
sent him to Jules Favre.

September 12.--Among other callers was Frederick Lemaitre.

September 13.--To-day there is a review of the army of Paris. I am alone
in my chamber. The battalions march through the streets singing the
"Marseillaise" and the "Chant du Depart." I hear this immense shout:

For France a Frenchman should live,
For France a Frenchman should die.*

* The "Chant du Depart."

I listen and I weep. On, valiant ones! I will go where you go.

Receive a visit from the United States Consul-General and Mr. Wickham
Hoffman.

Julie* writes me from Guernsey that the acorn I planted on July 14 has
sprouted. The oak of the United States of Europe issued from the ground
on September 5, the day of my return to Paris.

* Victor Hugo's sister-in-law.

September 14.--I received a visit from the committee of the Societe
des Gens de Lettres, which wants me to be its president; from M. Jules
Simon, Minister of Public Instruction; from Colonel Pire, who commands a
corps of volunteers, etc.

September 16.--One year ago to-day I opened the Peace Congress at
Lausanne. This morning I wrote the "Appeal to Frenchmen" for a war to
the bitter end against the invasion.

On going out I perceived hovering over Montmartre the captive balloon
from which a watch is to be kept upon the besiegers.

September 17.--All the forests around Paris are