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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER I
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Its tone, it says, is too humble.

The _Rappel_ gives a list of "valets of Bonaparte, _ce coquin sinistre_," who still occupy official positions, and demands that they shall at once be relieved from their functions.

The _Rappel_ also informs its readers that letters have been discovered (where ?) proving that Queen Victoria had promised before the war to do her best to aid Germany.
Butler of a friend of mine, whose house is close by the fortifications, and who has left it in his charge, has just been to see me.

The house is a "poste" of the National Guard.

Butler says the men do not sleep on the ramparts, but in the neighbouring houses.


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