ALL WERE DEAD, AS IT WERE ONE LONG CEMETERY.

HISTORICAL ROMANCES OF FRANCE

THE BLOCKADE OF PHALSBURG

AN EPISODE OF THE END OF THE EMPIRE

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF

ERCKMANN-CHATRIAN

ILLUSTRATED

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK::::::::::::::::::::::1911

COPYRIGHT, 1871, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER & CO.
COPYRIGHT, 1889, 1898
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ All were dead, as it were one long cemetery . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "Be so good as to come in, Mr. Sergeant" ]

[ I shuddered in my very soul and my hair bristled ]

[ Winter took him by the collar, and said: "I have you now!" ]

[ The sortie from the Tile-kiln ]