the
ex-Emperor and Paul de Cassagnac. The duel took place in the Rue
des Reservoirs, in the midst of an immense crowd. The Marshal was
killed, and was therefore obliged to renounce the command of the
troops. But the Assembly would not accept his resignation.

"We are in the position to assert that a company of the 132nd
Battalion has this morning surrounded fifteen thousand gendarmes and
sergents-de-ville, in the park of Neuilly. Seeing that all
resistance was useless, the supporters of Monsieur Thiers
surrendered without reserve. Among them were seventeen members of
the National Assembly, who, not content with ordering the
assassination of our brothers, had wished also to be present at the
massacre.

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"A person worthy of credit has related to us the following fact:--A
_cantiniere_ of the 44th Battalion (from the Batignolles quarter),
was in the act of pouring out a glass of brandy for an artilleryman
of the Fort of Vanves, when suddenly the artilleryman was out in two
by a Versailles shell; the brave _cantiniere_ drank off the contents
of the glass just poured out for the dead man who lay in bits at her
feet, and took his place at the guns. She performed her new part of
artilleryman so bravely, that ten minutes later there was not a
single gun uninjured in the Meudon battery. As to those who were
serving the pieces there, they were all hurled to a distance of
several miles, and amongst them were said to have been
recognised--we give this news however with great reserve--Monsieur
Ollivier, the ex-minister of the ex-Emperor, and Count von Bismarck,
who wished to verify for himself the actual range of the guns that
he had lent to his good friends of Versailles."

After the LATEST NEWS come the reports of the day, the _bulletin du
jour_ as it is called now, and it is in this that the editor, a member
of the Commune, reveals his talent. We trust that the following example
is not quite unworthy of the pen of Monsieur Felix Pyat, or the
signature of Monsieur Vermorel:--

"Paris, 29th April, 1871.

"They are lying in wait for us, these tigers athirst for blood.

"They are there, these Vandals, who have sworn that in all Paris not
a single man shall be spared, nor a single stone, left standing.

"But we are not in their p