During the whole night despatches succeeded each other without intermission, all demanding cannon and men under the threat of abandoning such or such a position. But where to find cannon? And men began to be as rare as the bronze.
FOOTNOTES:
[187] One of the commanders of the German troops.
[188] Appendix XVIII.
[189] At half-past eight o'clock in the Mairie of the eleventh arrondissement the delegate Genton made this recital, which we heard, and reproduce verbatim.
[190] Appendix XIX.
[191] "Burn everything! I have heard these words from the most wise, the most virtuous men."—Jules Favre, Enquête sur le 18 Mars, vol. ii. p. 42. "Rather Moscow than Sedan," wrote during the first siege one of these wise and virtuous men—M. Jules Simon.