While everybody else was fleeing toward Paris he earnestly desired to go in the opposite direction.

The senator couldn't believe his ears.
"You are beside yourself!" he exclaimed.

"It is necessary to leave Paris, but toward the South.

I will tell you confidentially, and you must not tell because it is a secret--we are leaving at any minute; we are all going, the President, the Government, the Chambers.

We are going to establish ourselves at Bordeaux as in 1870.