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Paris under the commune, or, The seventy-three days of the second siege; with numerous illustrations, sketches taken on the spot, portraits from the ... Paris showing the parts damaged or destroyed
John Leighton
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2012-05-19.
ISBN 9781236251145
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...humanity." Here the irrepressible breaks out again:--" Now I am sure they are going to kill M. Thiera!" F&LIX PTAT, MEMBEK OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION. FeUx Pyat was born in 1810 at Vierzon. He came to Paris for the purpose of studying law, but soon abandoned bis intention for the more genial profession of letters. He contributed to the Figaro, the Charivari, the Reeue de Paris, and the National. He wrote several plays, one of which was suppressed, in the time of Louis Philippe, for ridiculing the king. In his "Deux Sorruriors" he advocates the working man. For defaming Jules Janin, in "The Prince and his Critiques, " he had 6 months' imprisonment. In 1848TIe was named Commissary-General, and subsequently deputy of the department of the Cher. Having signed Ledra-Rollin's call to arms, he was obliged after the events of June to take refuge in England. Profiting by the amnesty of the fifteenth of August, 1869, he returned to France, but made himself so obnoxious to the Government by his virulent abuse of the Empire, that he was again expelled. It is said he offered half his fortune to any one who would kill the Emperor; but he tempted no one. The revolution of the fourth of September allowed him to re-enter France. He commenced an immediate attack on the new government, which he continued until his journal, Le Combat, was suppressed by General Vinoy. Needless to say that he was one of the Whereupon his irritated adversary seizes him by the collar, gives his head some well-applied blows against the kerb-stone, and then, pushing through the crowd, carries him off bodily. As for me, my curiosity unsatisfied, I grow resigned--may the will of the Commune be done--and I give it up. More hopeless mystification from the Citizen B
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