experiences and impressions of men and things was worth telling or not is
a point which I must leave my readers to decide.

E.A.V.

London, _January_ 1914.



CONTENTS


I. INTRODUCTORY--SOME EARLY RECOLLECTIONS

II. THE OUTBREAK OF THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR

III. ON THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION

IV. FROM REVOLUTION TO SIEGE

V. BESIEGED

VI. MORE ABOUT THE SIEGE DAYS

VII. FROM PARIS TO VERSAILLES

VIII. FROM VERSAILLES TO BRITTANY

IX. THE WAR IN THE PROVINCES