Contents

[PREFACE]
[LIST OF PLATES AND ILLUSTRATIONS]
INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER[The 30th October, 1870—The Hôtel de Ville invaded—Governor Trochu resigns—A Revolt attempted—Meetings, Place de la Bastille—The Prussians enter Paris—Hostility of the National Guard]
I.[The Memorable 18th of March—Line and Nationals Fraternise—Discipline at a Discount]
II.[Assassination of Generals Lecomte and Clément Thomas]
III.[Proclamation of M. Picard—The Government retires to Versailles]
IV.[The New Regime Proclaimed—Obscurity of New Masters]
V.[Paris Hesitates—Small Sympathy with Versailles]
VI.[The Buttes Montmartre]
VII.[An Issue Possible—An Approved Proclamation]
VIII.[Demonstration of the Friends of Order]
IX.[The Drama of the Rue de la Paix—Victims to Order]
X.[A Wedding]
XI.[The Bourse and Belleville]
XII.[Watching and Waiting]
XIII.[A Timid but Prudent Person]
XIV.[Some Federal Opinions]
XV.[Proclamation of Admiral Saisset—Paris Satisfied.]
XVI.[A Widow]
XVII.[The Central Committee Triumphs]
XVIII.[Paris Elections]
XIX.[The Commune a Fact—A Motley Assembly]
XX.[Proclamation of the Elections]
XXI.[A Batch of Official Decrees—Landlord, and Tenant]
XXII.[Requisitions and Feasts]
XXIII.[Removals and Retirements]
XXIV.[A General Flight]
XXV.[An Envoy to Garibaldi]
XXVI.[Commencement of Civil War—Beyond the Arc de Triomphe]
XXVII.[Mont Valérien opens on the Federals—Contradictory News]
XXVIII.[Death of General Duval—Able Administration]
XXIX.[Antipathy to the Church—The Archbishop Interrogated]
XXX.[The Accomplices of Versailles]
XXXI.[Death of Colonel Flourens]
XXXII.[The Cross and the Red Flag]
XXXIII.[Colonel Assy of Creuzot—Disgrace of Lullier]
XXXIV.[Fighting goes on]
XXXV.[Federal Funerals]
XXXVI.[Prudent Counsel]
XXXVII.[Suppression of Newspapers]
XXXVIII.[The Second Bombardment—Avenue de la Grande Armée—Reckless Aim of the Versaillais]
XXXIX.[The Plan of Bergeret]
XL.[Another General—Police and Pressgang—A Citizen of the World]
XLI.[Women and Children]
XLII.[Why is Conciliation Impossible?]
XLIII.[The Portable Guillotine]
XLIV.[The Common Grave]
XLV.[Idle Paris]
XLVI.[The Press]
XLVII.[Day follows Day]
XLVIII.[The Condemned Column—Model Decrees]
XLIX.[Thiers and Conciliation—Paris and France]
L.[Communist Caricatures—Political Satire]
LI.[Gustave Courbet—Federation of Art—Courbet, President]
LII.[Camp, Place Vendôme]
LIII.[Elections of the 16th of April]
LIV.[The “Change” under the Commune]
LV.[Elections sans Electors—Farce of Universal Suffrage]
LVI.[À la Mode de Londres]
LVII.[The Little Sisters of the Poor]
LVIII.[Bécon and Asnières taken—Declaration to the French People—Federation of Communes—The Commune or the Deluge]
LIX.[A Court-Martial]
LX.[A Heroic Gamin]
LXI.[Killing the Dead]
LXII.[The Truce at Neuilly—Porte-Maillot destroyed—Neuilly in Ruins]
LXIII.[Masonic Mediation—The Envoy of Peace—Citizens and Brothers—A White Flag on Porte-Maillot]
LXIV.[Prudent Monsieur Pyat]
LXV.[Resources of the Commune—The Royal Road to Riches]
LXVI.[The Prophecy of Proudhon]
LXVII.[Revolutionary Balloons]
LXVIII.[A Confession of Conscience]
LXIX.[Communist Journalism—Sensation Articles]
LXX.[Fort Issy falls]
LXXI.[Cluseret arrested]
LXXII.[The Executive Commission—Committee of Public Safety]
LXXIII.[A Competent Tribunal]
LXXIV.[The Password betrayed]
LXXV.[The Condemned Chapel]
LXXVI.[Restitution is Robbery]
LXXVII.[The Nuns of Picpus]
LXXVIII.[Rossel resigns—The Semblance of a Government]
LXXIX.[Want of Funds—The Sinews of War]
LXXX.[Passwords—The Chariot of Apollo—Refractories]
LXXXI.[Sacrilege—Clubs in the Churches]
LXXXII.[Refractories in Danger]
LXXXIII.[The Home of M. Thiers, Demolition and Removal]
LXXXIV.[Filial Love]
LXXXV.[Communal Secessionists—Save himself who can]
LXXXVI.[The Failing Cause—The Column Vendôme falls]
LXXXVII.[A Concert at the Tuileries]
LXXXVIII.[Cartridge Magazine Explosion]
LXXXIX.[The Advent of Action—Paris ceases to smile]
XC.[The Troops enter—Street Fortifications—Insurgents at home]
XCI.[Arrests and Murders]
XCII.[Fire and Sword]
XCIII.[Barricade at the Place de Clichy]
XCIV.[Rack and Ruin]
XCV.[Bloodshed and Brigandage]
XCVI.[Hôtel de Ville on Fire—A Furnace]
XCVII.[Pétroleurs and Pétroleuses]
XCVIII.[Streets of Paris]
XCIX.[The Expiring Demons—The Hostages—Reprisals—Cemeteries]
C.[Sewers and Catacombs]
CI.[Mourning and Sadness]

APPENDIX

[Chronology of the Commune]
[Memoir of Rochefort.]
[The 18th of March]
[The Prussians and the Commune]
[Memoir of Gambon]
[Memoir of Lullier]
[Memoir of Protot]
[Translation from Victor Hugo]
[Note of Jourde]
[Last Proclamations of the Commune]
[Note of Férré]
[The Hostages—Gendarmes, &c.]
[President Bonjean]
[Note of Urbain.]
[Devastations of Paris]
[Official Report of General Ladmirault]
[Ammunition expended on Second Siege of Paris]
[List of Monuments and Buildings destroyed]
[Index to Plan—Damage by Fire, &c.]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:

[FRONTISPIECE]:—THE COLUMN OF JULY (HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF)

[PORTRAIT OF M. THIERS], PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC

[THE STATE OF PARTY]—PICTURED By THEMSELVES. ALLEGORICAL PAGE—ROCHEFORT, CLÉMENT THOMAS, &c. (facsimile)