Inside Paris During the SiegeMacmillan and Company, 1871 - 342 pages |
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... Mobiles at drill - raw peasants in their blouses , who looked dole- fully at their percussion muskets , and still more dole- fully at us Parisians . From Normandy , from Brittany , from Burgundy , from all parts of France , they came ...
... Mobiles at drill - raw peasants in their blouses , who looked dole- fully at their percussion muskets , and still more dole- fully at us Parisians . From Normandy , from Brittany , from Burgundy , from all parts of France , they came ...
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... Mobiles , who seemed to have enough of Paris and its republics , and were only thinking of their village sweethearts , and country homes , left behind at the mercy of the Prussians . Great activity was displayed in clothing , equipping ...
... Mobiles , who seemed to have enough of Paris and its republics , and were only thinking of their village sweethearts , and country homes , left behind at the mercy of the Prussians . Great activity was displayed in clothing , equipping ...
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... Mobiles who were marching out towards Sèvres . They waved their flag , sung and shouted , cut jokes at the expense of their " sargent " and passers - by , and behaved more like a pack of larking school - boys than a troop of armed men ...
... Mobiles who were marching out towards Sèvres . They waved their flag , sung and shouted , cut jokes at the expense of their " sargent " and passers - by , and behaved more like a pack of larking school - boys than a troop of armed men ...
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... Mobiles . The crowd was silent as he passed , his presence seems to inspire silence . He must be a man of great reserve and even shyness of manner and disposition . Poor Trochu was the expression that rose to my lips as I marked his ...
... Mobiles . The crowd was silent as he passed , his presence seems to inspire silence . He must be a man of great reserve and even shyness of manner and disposition . Poor Trochu was the expression that rose to my lips as I marked his ...
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... Mobiles for allowing me to pass un- challenged . An old sergeant of the Guard Mobile , who wore the Crimean and Italian medals , stepped out of a guard - house and asked where I was going . I replied , " to the fort on a visit to an ...
... Mobiles for allowing me to pass un- challenged . An old sergeant of the Guard Mobile , who wore the Crimean and Italian medals , stepped out of a guard - house and asked where I was going . I replied , " to the fort on a visit to an ...
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