Of all Italian journalists he is the best known.
On September 18, at Romigny, General Asebert arrested Barzini, and for four days kept him in a cow stable.

Except what he begged from the gendarmes, he had no food, and he slept on straw.

When I saw him at the headquarters of the General Staff under arrest I told them who he was, and that were I in their place I would let him see all there was to see, and let him, as he wished, write to his people of the excellence of the French army and of the inevitable success of the Allies.

With Italy balancing on the fence and needing very little urging to cause her to join her fortunes with France, to choose that moment to put Italian journalists in a cow yard struck me as dull.
In this war the foreign offices of the different governments have been willing to allow correspondents to accompany the army.

They know that there are other ways of killing a man than by hitting him with a piece of shrapnel.