Both sides, in truth, were maddened by the long and murderous struggle, which showed once again that no strife is so horrible as that of civil war.

On Sunday, May 28, the last desperate band was cut down at the Cemetery Pere-Lachaise, and fighting gave way to fusillades.

Most of the chiefs perished without the pretence of trial, and the same fate befel thousands of National Guards, who were mown down in swathes and cast into trenches.

In the last day of fighting, and the horrible time that followed, 17,000 Parisians are said to have perished[63].

Little by little, law reasserted her sway, but only to doom 9600 persons to heavy punishment.