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Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

CHAPTER I
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Nothing of any importance appears to have taken place at the front yesterday.

The commanders of several forts sent to Trochu to say that they have fired on the Prussians, and that there have been small outpost engagements.
During the day the bridges of St.Cloud, Sevres, and Billancourt were blown up.

I attempted this morning to obtain a pass from General Trochu.
Announcing myself as a "Journaliste Anglais," I got, after some difficulty, into a room in which several of his staff were seated.

But there my progress was stopped.

I was told that aides-de-camp had been fired on, and that General Trochu had himself been arrested, and had been within an inch of being shot because he had had the impudence to say that he was the Governor of Paris.


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