A Confession of Conscience LXIX. Communist Journalism—Sensation Articles LXX. Fort Issy falls LXXI. Cluseret arrested LXXII. The Executive Commission—Committee of Public Safety LXXIII. A Competent Tribunal LXXIV. The Password betrayed LXXV. The Condemned Chapel LXXVI. Restitution is Robbery LXXVII. The Nuns of Picpus LXXVIII. Rossel resigns—The Semblance of a Government LXXIX. Want of Funds—The Sinews of War LXXX. Passwords—The Chariot of Apollo—Refractories LXXXI. Sacrilege—Clubs in the Churches LXXXII. Refractories in Danger LXXXIII. The Home of M. Thiers, Demolition and Removal LXXXIV. Filial Love LXXXV. Communal Secessionists—Save himself who can LXXXVI. The Failing Cause—The Column Vendôme falls LXXXVII. A Concert at the Tuileries LXXXVIII. Cartridge Magazine Explosion LXXXIX. The Advent of Action—Paris ceases to smile XC. The Troops enter—Street Fortifications—Insurgents at home XCI. Arrests and Murders XCII. Fire and Sword XCIII. Barricade at the Place de Clichy XCIV. Rack and Ruin XCV. Bloodshed and Brigandage XCVI. Hôtel de Ville on Fire—A Furnace XCVII. Pétroleurs and Pétroleuses XCVIII. Streets of Paris XCIX. The Expiring Demons—The Hostages—Reprisals—Cemeteries C. Sewers and Catacombs CI. Mourning and Sadness APPENDIX Chronology of the Commune Memoir of Rochefort. The 18th of March The Prussians and the Commune Memoir of Gambon Memoir of Lullier Memoir of Protot Translation from Victor Hugo Note of Jourde Last Proclamations of the Commune Note of Férré The Hostages—Gendarmes, &c. President Bonjean Note of Urbain. Devastations of Paris Official Report of General Ladmirault Ammunition expended on Second Siege of Paris List of Monuments and Buildings destroyed Index to Plan—Damage by Fire, &c. [Illustration:] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS: FRONTISPIECE:—THE COLUMN OF JULY (HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF) PORTRAIT OF M. THIERS, PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC THE STATE OF PARTY—PICTURED By THEMSELVES. ALLEGORICAL PAGE—ROCHEFORT, CLÉMENT THOMAS, &c. (_facsimile_) COLUMN OF JULY—PLACE DE LA BASTILLE THE BUTTES MONTMARTRE—FEDERAL ARTILLERY PARKED THERE MONTMARTRE—FIRST LINE OF SENTINELS THE RED FLAG OF THE COLUMN OF JULY PURIFICATION OF THE CHAMPS ÉLYSÉES AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THE PRUSSIANS—CONSTRUCTION OF THE FIRST BARRICADE, 18TH MARCH DEFENCE OF THE HOTEL DE VILLE SENTINELS, BOULEVARD SAINT-MICHEL BEHIND A BARRICADE—THE DÉJEUNER PORTRAIT OF GAMBON, MEMBER OF THE COMMUNE BEHIND A BARRICADE—THE EVENING MEAL PLACE DE LA CONCORDE—FEDERALS GOING OUT PORTRAIT OF GENERAL BERGERET PORTRAIT OF ABBÉ DEGUERRY, CURÉ OF THE MADELEINE PORTRAIT OF RAOUL RIGAULT, PROCUREUR OF THE COMMUNE PORTRAIT OF MONSEIGNEUR DARBOY, ARCHBISHOP OF PARIS PORTRAIT OF COLONEL FLOURENS PORTRAIT OF COLONEL ASSY, GOVERNOR OF THE HOTEL DE VILLE THE RED FLAG ON THE PANTHEON PORTRAIT OF GENERAL CLUSERET