Paris under the Commune: The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) — John Shaqi
Paris under the Commune: The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)Leighton, John
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Paris under the Commune: The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs)
Leighton, John
Paris (France) -- History -- Commune, 1871
“1st Arrondissement: Ad. Adam, Meline, adjoints.—2nd
Arrondissement: Tirard, maire, representative of the Seine; Ad.
Brelay, Chéron, Loiseau-Pinson, adjoints.—3rd Arrondissement;
Bonvalet, maire; Ch. Murat, adjoint.—4th Arrondissement: Vautrain,
maire; Loiseau, Callon, adjoints.—5th Arrondissement: Jourdan,
adjoint.—6th Arrondissement: Hérisson, maire; A. Leroy,
adjoint.—7th Arrondissement: Arnaud (de l’Ariége), maire,
representative of the Seine.—8th Arrondissement: Carnot, maire,
representative of the Seine.—9th Arrondissement: Desmaret,
maire.—10th Arrondissement: Dubail, maire; A. Murat,
Degoyves-Denunques, adjoints.—11th Arrondissement: Motu, maire,
representative of the Seine; Blanchon, Poirier, Tolain,
representative of the Seine.—12th Arrondissement: Denizot, Dumas,
Turillon, adjoints.—18th Arrondissement: Léo Meillet, Combes,
adjoints.—14th Arrondissement: Héligon, adjoint.—15th
Arrondissement: Jobbe-Duval, adjoint.—16th Arrondissement: Henri
Martin, maire and representative of the Seine,—17th.
Arrondissement: FRANÇOIS FAVRE, maire; MALOU, VILLENEUVE, CACHEUX,
adjoints.—18th. Arrondissement: CLÉMENCEAU, maire and
representative of the people; J.B. LAFONT, DEREURE, JACLARD,
adjoints.”
This proclamation has now been posted two hours, and I have not yet met
a single person who does not approve of it entirely. The deputies of
the Seine and the _maires_ of Paris have, by the flight of the
Government to Versailles, become the legitimate chiefs. We have elected
them, it is for them to lead us. To them belongs the duty of
reconciling the Assembly with the city; and it appears to us that they
have taken the last means of bringing about that conciliation, by
disengaging all that is legitimate and practical in its claims from the
exaggeration of the _émeute_. Let them therefore have all praise for
this truly patriotic attempt. Let them hasten to obtain from the
Assembly a recognition of our rights. In acceding to the demands of the
deputies and the _maires_, the Government will not be treating with
insurrection; on the contrary, it will effect a radical triumph over
it, for it will take away from it every pretext of existence, and will
separate from it, in a definite way, all those men who have been
blinded to the illegal and violent manner in which this programme is
drawn up, by the justice of certain parts of it.
If the Assembly consent to this, all that will remain of the 18th of
March will be the recollection—painful enough, without doubt—of one
sanguinary day, while out of a great evil will come a great benefit.
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