Mon diner m’inquiete et même me harcêle,
J’ai mange du cheval et je songe a la selle.
The Prussians are bombarding Saint Denis.
January 2.—Daumier and Louis Blanc lunched with us.
Louis Koch gave to his aunt as a New Year gift a couple of cabbages and a brace of living partridges!
This morning we lunched on wine soup. The elephant at the Jardin des Plantes has been slaughtered. He wept. He will be eaten..
The Prussians continue to send us 6,000 bombs a day.
January 3.—The heating of two rooms at the Pavillon de Rohan now costs 10 francs a day.
The Mountaineers’ club again demands that Louis Blanc and I be added to the Government in order to direct it. I continue to refuse.
There are at present twelve members of the French Academy in Paris, among them Ségur, Mignet, Dufaure, d’Haussonville, Legouvé, Cuvillier-Fleury, Barbier and Vitet.
Moon. Intense cold. The Prussians bombarded Saint Denis all night.