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[224] Appendix XXXIV.
[225] This fact and the following one are not only attested by the prisoners, but by the journals of order and the correspondents of the conservative foreign newspapers speaking as eye-witnesses. Appendix XXXV.
[226] "I observed a slender figure walking alone, in the costume of the National Guard, with long fair hair floating over the shoulders, a bright blue eye, and a handsome, bold young face, that seemed to know neither shame nor fear. When the spectators detected at a glance that this seeming young National Guardsman was a woman, their indignation found vent in strong language; but the only response of the victim was to glare right and left with heightened colour and flashing eyes. If the French nation were composed only of Frenchwomen, what a terrible nation it would be!"—The Times, 29th May, 1871.
[227] They treated in this manner M. Ratisbonne, he who in the Debats had just written, "What an inestimable victory!"
[228] These facts are borne witness to by several conservative journals, among others the Siècle. We cite this paper in preference to the Figarist journals, which might be suspected of having amplified the glory of the army. "The day before yesterday there has been (at Satory) an attempt at revolt. The soldiers began by aiming at the most mutinous; but as this procedure did not seem sufficiently expeditious, mitrailleuses were advanced, which fired into the crowd. Order was re-established, but at what a price!" (Versailles, 27th May). "Towards four o'clock in the morning a new rising took place amongst the prisoners of Satory. There were several volleys of mitrailleuses, and, as you may suppose, the number of dead and wounded must have been rather considerable." (Versailles, May 28).
[229] Among others, one Thierce, lieutenant-colonel, who had presided at the executions in the thirteenth arrondissement.
[230] At the Beaujon Hospital there was a wounded Federal whom all the staff wanted to save. Only one person refused, the doctor Delbeau, head-surgeon and professor in the faculty of medicine. He sent up the soldiers of the neighbouring post and had the poor fellow taken away. Be it said to the honour of the students that they forced him some months after to suspend his lectures.
[231] The numbers of the registers where the denunciations were inscribed enabled the proof of this statistic of infamy, published by the spy journals of the time, to be ascertained.
[232] One of these orders, which commanded Millière to set fire to the left bank, was signed Billioray, who had fled on the 21st, and Dombrowski, already dead at this time.