troops. That way or the Boulevards I must pass. In the Boulevards
they were fighting, and I was afraid all other passages might be
blocked up . . . and I should have to sleep in a hotel in that
case, and then my mamma - however, after a long DETOUR, I found a
passage and ran home, and in our street joined papa.

'. . . I'll tell you to-morrow the other facts gathered from
newspapers and papa. . . . Tonight I have given you what I have
seen with my own eyes an hour ago, and began trembling with
excitement and fear. If I have been too long on this one subject,
it is because it is yet before my eyes.


'Monday, 24.


'It was that fire raised the people. There was fighting all
through the night in the Rue Notre Dame de Lorette, on the
Boulevards where they had been shot at, and at the Porte St. Denis.
At ten o'clock, they resigned the house of the Minister of Foreign
Affairs (where the disastrous volley was fired) to the people, who
immediately took possession of it. I went to school, but [was]
hardly there when the row in that quarter commenced. Barricades
began to be fixed. Everyone was very grave now; the EXTERNES went
away, but no one came to fetch me, so I had to stay. No lessons
could go on. A troop of armed men took possession of the
barricades, so it was supposed I should have to sleep there. The
revolters came and asked for arms, but Deluc (head-master) is a
National Guard, and he said he had only his own and he wanted them;
but he said he would not fire on them. Then they asked for wine,