s heard. The sun rises and Paris awakes.

October 22.--The edition of 5,000 copies of _Les Chatiments_ has been
sold in two days. I have authorised the printing of another 3,000.

Little Jeanne has imagined a way of puffing out her cheeks and raising
her arms in the air that is adorable.

The first 5,000 copies of the Parisian edition of _Les Chatiments_
has brought me in 500 francs, which I am sending to the "Siecle" as a
subscription to the national fund for the cannon that Paris needs.

Mathe and Gambon, the ex-Representatives, called to ask me to take part
in a meeting of which former representatives are to form the nucleus.
The meeting would be impossible without me, they said. But I see more
disadvantages than advantages in such a meeting. I thought I ought to
refuse.

We are eating horsemeat in every style. I saw the following in the
window of a cook-shop: "Saucisson chevaleresque."

October 23.--The 17th Battalion asked me to be the first subscriber of
"one sou" to a fund for purchasing a cannon. They will collect 300,000
sous. This will make 15,000 francs, which will purchase a 24-centimetre
gun, carrying 8,500 metres--equal to the Krupp guns.

Lieutenant Marechal brought to collect my sou an Egyptian cup of onyx
dating from the Pharaohs, engraved with the moon and the sun, the Great
Bear and the Southern Cross (?) and having for handles two cynocephalus
demons. The engraving of this cup required the life-work of a man. I
gave my sou. D'Alton-Shee, who was present, gave his, as did also M.
and Mme. Meurice, and the two servants, Mariette and Clemence. The 17th
Battalion wanted to call the gun the "Victor Hugo." I told them to call
it the "Strasburg." In this way the Prussians will still receive shots
from Strasburg.

We chatted and laughed with the officers of the 17th Battalion. It was
the duty of the two cynocephalus genie of the cup to bear souls to hell.
I remarked: "Very well, I confide William and Bismarck to them."

Visit from M. Edouard Thierry. He came to request me to allow "Stella"
to be read in aid of the wounded at the Theatre Francais. I gave him his
choice of all the "Chatiments." That startled him. And I demanded that
the reading be for a cannon.

Visit from M. Charles Floquet. He has a post at the Hotel de Ville. I
commissioned him to tell the Government to call the Mont Valerien "Mont
Strasbourg."

October 24.--Visit from General Le Flo. Various deputations received.