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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER I
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He recommends all citizens to arrest soldiers who are drunk or who propagate false news, and threatens them with the vigorous application of the Articles of War.

Another proclamation from Keratry warns every one against treating soldiers or selling them liquor when they already have had too much.

I went to dine this evening in an estaminet in the Faubourg St.Antoine.It was full of men of the people, and from the tone of their observations I am certain that if M.
Jules Favre concludes an armistice involving any cession of territory, there will be a rising at once.

The cafes are closed now at 10 o'clock.
At about 11 I walked home.

One would have supposed oneself in some dull great provincial town at 3 in the morning.


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