Inside Paris During the SiegeMacmillan and Company, 1871 - 342 pages |
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... the siege I have witnessed may never become legendary , that something of its original Parisian naiveté may outlive its numerous historians . LONDON , Feb. , 1871 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PREPARATION FOR THE SIEGE PAGE 1 vi PREFACE .
... the siege I have witnessed may never become legendary , that something of its original Parisian naiveté may outlive its numerous historians . LONDON , Feb. , 1871 . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. PREPARATION FOR THE SIEGE PAGE 1 vi PREFACE .
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... Parisian patriotism had not as yet got be- yond the stage of an exuberant Chauvinism , * confined to theatres , cafés , concerts , and boulevards , and fed with extravagant anticipations of fresh Magentas and Solferinos , military ...
... Parisian patriotism had not as yet got be- yond the stage of an exuberant Chauvinism , * confined to theatres , cafés , concerts , and boulevards , and fed with extravagant anticipations of fresh Magentas and Solferinos , military ...
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... Parisian press which is ever ready to kiss a pair of gilt spurs on a pair of military boots , set to work to make matters straight , danced , and howled , and shrieked at the Prussians by way of reviving the patriotism of the boulevards ...
... Parisian press which is ever ready to kiss a pair of gilt spurs on a pair of military boots , set to work to make matters straight , danced , and howled , and shrieked at the Prussians by way of reviving the patriotism of the boulevards ...
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... Parisian , even news - boys hushed with creation into silence on this side - the left , or rive gauche of the Seine . At the Mairie of St. Sulpice , I find the crowd silently scanning the dismal tidings of the night . " Forty Thousand ...
... Parisian , even news - boys hushed with creation into silence on this side - the left , or rive gauche of the Seine . At the Mairie of St. Sulpice , I find the crowd silently scanning the dismal tidings of the night . " Forty Thousand ...
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... Parisian Sunday afternoon . Yet the morning had been so gloomy ! I remember Gustave Flaubert's inimitable description of the young Republic of '48 sunning itself in the streets of Paris . Yes , ' tis the : Republic . To convince myself ...
... Parisian Sunday afternoon . Yet the morning had been so gloomy ! I remember Gustave Flaubert's inimitable description of the young Republic of '48 sunning itself in the streets of Paris . Yes , ' tis the : Republic . To convince myself ...
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