[189] Souvenirs, IV. 88.
[190] Sarcey, Le Siège de Paris, Eng. trans., 250.
[191] Souvenirs, IV. 143.
[192] Souvenirs, IV. 150.
[193] The Government usually met in the evening at nine o’clock, and the sessions always continued until after midnight, sometimes till two or three in the morning. “From the 4th of September till the 8th of February we never missed a day, and often we had additional meetings,” writes Jules Favre (Gouvernement de la Défense Nationale, I. 215).
[194] Souvenirs, IV. 89.
[195] Souvenirs, IV. 161.
[196] Labouchère, A Resident besieged in Paris, 161.
[197] See de Goncourt, Journal under October 31, 1870.
[198] A vivid description of the proceedings inside the Hôtel de Ville is given by Labouchère, op. cit.