d the "Chateaudun"
amounted to 7,000 francs, the balance going to pay the attendants,
firemen, and lighting, the only expenses charged.

At the Cail works mitrailleuses of a new model, called the Gatling
model, are being made.

Little Jeanne is beginning to chatter.

A second reading of _Les Chatiments_ for another cannon will be given at
the "Theatre Francais".

November 11.--Mlle. Periga called today to rehearse _Pauline Roland_,
which she will read at the second reading of _Les Chatiments_, announced
for to-morrow at the Porte Saint Martin. I took a carriage, dropped
Mlle. Periga at her home, and then went to the rehearsal of to-morrow's
reading at the theatre. Frederick Lemaitre, Berton, Maubart, Taillade,
Lacressonniere, Charly, Mmes. Laurent, Lia Felix, Rousseil, M. Raphael
Felix and the committee of the Societe des Gens de Lettres were there.

After the rehearsal the wounded of the Porte Saint Martin ambulance
asked me, through Mme. Laurent, to go and see them. I said: "With all my
heart," and I went.

They are lying in several rooms, chief of which is the old green-room
of the theatre with its big round mirrors, where in 1831 I read to the
actors "Marion de Lorme". M. Crosnier was then director. (Mme. Dorval
and Bocage were present at that reading.) On entering I said to the
wounded men: "Behold one who envies you. I desire nothing more on earth
but one of your wounds. I salute you, children of France, favourite sons
of the Republic, elect who suffer for the Fatherland."

They seemed to be greatly moved. I shook hands with each of them. One
held out his mutilated wrist. Another had lost his nose. One had that
very morning undergone two painful operations. A very young man had been
decorated with the military medal a few hours before. A convalescent
said to me: "I am a Franc-Comtois." "Like myself," said I. And I
embraced him. The nurses, in white aprons, who are the actresses of the
theatre, burst into tears.

November 13.--I had M. and Mme. Paul Meurice, Vacquerie and Louis Blanc
to dinner this evening. We dined at 6 o'clock, as the second reading of
_Les Chatiments_ was fixed to begin at the Porte Saint Martin at 7.30. I
offered a box to Mme. Paul Meurice for the reading.

November 14.--The receipts for _Les Chatiments_ last night (without
counting the collection taken up in the theatre) amounted to 8,000
francs.

Good news! General d'Aurelle de Paladine has retaken Orleans and beaten