They were the few soldiers who, remaining in Senlis after the victory of the Ourcq, were captured by Zouaves sent from Paris in motor-cars. Only a few years ago the Rue de la République was called the Rue Neuve-de-Paris, although it dated from 1753. It was made in order to spare the Court of Louis XV. the circuitous way and steep ascent of the old road, which followed the Rue Vieille-de-Paris and the Rue du Châtel. [Illustration: ENTRANCE TO THE RUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE AFTER THE FIRE] [Illustration: GERMAN CYCLIST AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE RUE BELLOY (1914)] _Descending the Rue de la République we come to the Rue Bellon, which crosses it. We turn to the right, at the place shown on the opposite photograph, and a few steps further on, reach the +Carrefour de la Licorne+._ This is one of the most devastated places of the town. The first view was taken during the German occupation, a German cyclist being snapshotted while riding. The other views show the state of the ruins in 1914 and the present condition. [Illustration: RUE ROUGEMAILLE (1914)] [Illustration: RUINS OF THE CARREFOUR DE LA LICORNE (1914)] _We return to the Rue de la République._ A few yards down, on the right, we see the charred house, the gable-end of which appears in the view on the following page. [Illustration: BURNT HOUSE RUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE (1914)] _We next reach the level of the Hôtel du Grand Cerf, of which the signboard is seen on the view below._ The German headquarters staff stayed there, and that is no doubt the reason for its remaining intact. The Mayor of Senlis, M. Odent, was taken there on September 2, after his arrest at the town-hall, just before being taken to Chamant to be shot. The proprietor of the hotel having left the town, the German officers commandeered a restaurant keeper and made him prepare a meal for thirty people, with "ices and champagne." [Illustration: FIRE RUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE (1914)] [Illustration: RUINS OF THE NOTARY'S HOUSE (1914)] The houses which face the hotel and which were still burning when the above photograph was taken, are those of the local justice of the peace and public notary. Looking through the entrance gates of the latter residence, one beholds the scene of desolation reproduced in the opposite picture. [Illustration: BURNT COURT OF JUSTICE (1914)] _On the left of the Rue de la République_ we come to a building which served as the sub-prefect's office and +Court of Justice+. This building, formerly a hospital, dates from the beginning of the eighteenth century. The work of the incendiaries is seen by comparing the opposite view with that given below. All the ruins already pointed out, as well as those that will be seen further on, were made systematically. [Illustration: RUE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE (1914)]