"Immediately the officer, exasperated, threw himself upon Dr. Faneau, crying to him, 'You lie, you have set a snare for us; you are the friend of these rascals; you are going to be shot.'
"Dr. Faneau understood that it would be in vain to attempt to justify himself; also, he offered no resistance to the firing-party.
"Some minutes after the unfortunate young man fell, struck by ten bullets.
"We knew Dr. Faneau, and we can affirm that, far from sympathising with the members of the Commune, he deplored their fatal errors, and waited with impatience for the re-establishment of order."—Le Siècle.
XXII.—(Page 383.)
In the National of the 29th May appeared the following:—
"Paris, 28th May 1871.
"Sir,—Last Friday, at the time when corpses were being picked up in the Boulevard St. Michel, some individuals of nineteen to twenty-five years old, dressed as well-to-do people, were seated with gay women inside, and at the doors of certain cafés of this boulevard, indulging with these in scandalous merrymaking.—Accept, Monsieur le rédacteur, &c.,
Duhamel.
"55 Boulevard d'Enfer."