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Illustrationthe Column of July PARIS UNDER THE COMMUNE OR THE - photo 1
Illustration:
the Column of July
PARIS
UNDER THE COMMUNE:
OR,
THE SEVENTY-THREE DAYS OF THE
SECOND SIEGE
WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS, SKETCHES TAKEN ON THE SPOT, AND PORTRAITS (FROM THE ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS).
BY JOHN LEIGHTON, F.S.A.,
&C.
Illustration:
LONDON:
1871.

Socialism, or the Red Republic, is all one; for it would tear down the tricolour and set up the red flag. It would make penny pieces out of the Column Vendme. It would knock down the statue of Napoleon and raise up that of Marat in its stead. It would suppress the Acadmie, the cole Polytechnique, and the Legion of Honour. To the grand device Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, it would add Ou la mort. It would bring about a general bankruptcy. It would ruin the rich without enriching the poor. It would destroy labour, which gives to each one his bread. It would abolish property and family. It would march about with the heads of the proscribed on pikes, fill the prisons with the suspected, and empty them by massacres. It would convert France into the country of gloom. It would strangle liberty, stifle the arts, silence thought, and deny God. It would bring into action these two fatal machines, one of which never works without the otherthe assignat press and the guillotine. In a word, it would do in cold blood what the men of 1793 did in fever, and after the grand horrors which our fathers saw, we should have the horrible in all that was low and small.
(VICTOR HUGO, 1848.)
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PREFACE.
Early in June of the present year I was making notes and sketches, without the least idea of what I should do with them. I was at the Mont-Parnasse Station of the Western Railway, awaiting a train from Paris to St. Cloud. Our fellow passengers, as we discovered afterwards, were principally prisoners for Versailles; the guards, soldiers; and the line, for two miles at least, appeared desolation and ruin.
The faade of the station, a very large one, was pockmarked all over by Federal bullets, whilst cannon balls had cut holes through the stone wall as if it had been cheese, and gone down the line, towards Cherbourg or Brest! The restaurant below was nearly annihilated, the counters, tables, and chairs being reduced to a confused heap. But there was a book-stall and on that book-stall reposed a little work, entitled the Bataille des Sept Jours, a brochure which a friend bought and gave to me, saying, Voil la texte de vos croquis, From seven days my ideas naturally wandered to seventy-threethe duration of the reign of the Communeand then again to two hundred and twenty daysthat included the Commune of 1871 and its antecedents. Hence this volume, which I liken to a French chteau, to which I have added a second storey and wings.
And now that the house is finished, I must render my obligations to M. Mends and numerous French friends, for their kind assistance and valuable aid, including my confrres of The Graphic, who have allowed me to enliven the walls with pictures from their stores; and last, and not least, my best thanks are due to an English Peer, who placed at my disposal his unique collection of prints and journals of the period bearing upon the subjecta subject I am pretty familiar with. Powder has done its work, the smell of petroleum has passed away, the house that called me master has vanished from the face of the earth, and my concierge and his wife are reported fusills by the Versaillais; and to add to the disaster, my rent was paid in advance, having been deposited with a notaire prior to the First Siege.... But my neighbours, where are they? In my immediate neighbourhood six houses were entirely destroyed, and as many more half ruined. I can only speak of one friend, an amiable and able architect, who, alas! remonstrated in person, and received a ball from a revolver through the back of his neck. His head is bowed for life. He has lost his pleasure and his treasure, a valuable museum of art,happily they could not burn his reputation, or the monument of his lifea range of goodly folio volumes that exist pour tous.
L.
LONDON, 1871.

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APPENDIX
Illustration:
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS:
:THE COLUMN OF JULY (HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF)
, PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC
PICTURED By THEMSELVES. ALLEGORICAL PAGEROCHEFORT, CLMENT THOMAS, &c. (facsimile)
PLACE DE LA BASTILLE
FEDERAL ARTILLERY PARKED THERE
FIRST LINE OF SENTINELS
AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE PRUSSIANSCONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST BARRICADE, 18TH MARCH
BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL
THE DJEUNER
, MEMBER OF THE COMMUNE
THE EVENING MEAL
FEDERALS GOING OUT
, CUR OF THE MADELEINE
, PROCUREUR OF THE COMMUNE
, ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS
, GOVERNOR OF THE HOTEL DE VILLE
HEAD QUARTERS OF GENERAL BERGERET
LITTLE PARIS AND HIS PLAYTHINGS (facsimile)
COURBET AND THE DEBRIS OF THE VENDME COLUMN
, DELEGATE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMISSION
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