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Title: The Insurrection in Paris

Author: An Englishman: Davy

Release Date: November 24, 2006 [EBook #19912]

Language: English

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THE INSURRECTION IN PARIS

RELATED

BY

AN ENGLISHMAN

_An eye-witness of that frightful war and of the terrible evils which
accompanied it_

PRICE: 2 fr. 50 c.

PARIS

A. LEMOIGNE, EDITOR

26, PLACE VENDOME

1871

Imprimerie de F. Le Blanc-Hardel, rue Froide, 2 et 4, a Caen.

_Paris, June the 25th 1871._

DEAR EDWARD,

To you who have been pleased to take some interest in what I wrote about
Paris, I inscribe this small volume which, according to your suggestion,
I publish under the form of a nearly day per day correspondence.

_Yours truly_,

DAVY.

RECOLLECTIONS

OF THE

PARISIAN INSURRECTION.

The desire of appreciating _de visu_ the results of a five month's siege
in a town of two million inhabitants, unexampled in the annals of
humanity, made me leave London on the twentieth of March.

Hardly landed in the Capital of France which I thought of finding
tranquil and occupied in exercising its genius in repairing the
disasters caused by the enemy, I heard with stupefaction that Paris, a
prey to civil war, was under the blow of a fresh siege.

Sad change! the German helmets had given place to the French kepys;
citizens of the same nation were going to cut one another's throats.

My first thought was to withdraw from this mournful and dangerous
spectacle. Of what importance to me, a simple citizen of Great Britain,
were the disorders and furies of that people, in turn our most cruel
enemy or our friend according to circumstances, as European politics or
the interests of sovereigns make of them our adversary or our ally?--Why
expose myself voluntarily to the heart-rending and often dangerous
trials of a war that had none of my sympathies either on the one side or
on the other