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riotous demonstrations in Paris and in other 

 cities. On the 7th and 8th of June the crowds 

 at various central points, especially in the Bou- 

 levard St. Michel, in the Latin quarter, at the 

 Hotel de Ville, and in the Boulevard Mont- 

 martre, displayed their feelings in vivas for 

 Kochefort, the republic, and cries of "Down 

 with the police ! " but they were easily dis- 

 persed by the sergents de ville, who were out 

 in great force, without any serious injury 

 to the populace. On the 9th of June the 

 crowds assembled again in increased strength 

 at these centres, and a decidedly revolutionary 

 tendency was displayed. Tens of thousands of 

 people had assembled in the Boulevard Mont- 

 martre at an early hour, and speedily inter- 

 rupted the traffic in that main thoroughfare of 

 Paris. The police were again out in great 

 force, powerfully supported by regiments of 

 the Gardes de Paris, massed in the side streets 

 ready for service, and aided by companies of 

 the mounted police. At midnight, the crowd 

 having become denser and bolder, and the 

 sound of the "Marseillaise " chanted by hun- 

 dreds of voices filling the air, mingled with 

 cries of " Down with the Emperor ! " " To the 

 Tuileries ! " and other seditious cries, the Gardes 

 de Paris made a charge and dispersed the 

 crowd, not before it had smashed all the lamps 

 on the streets, sacked several cafes and crushed 

 in all the glass in the various "kiosks on the 

 boulevard, besides doing a great deal of bodily 

 damage to the police, whom they showered 

 with stones, iron chains, and any kind of mis- 

 siles that they could lay their hands on. In 

 this affair several police were killed and many 

 of the mob, and an immense number of arrests 

 were made. A like disturbance occurred near 

 the Bastile, where the mob was defiant and 

 bellicose. The troops were compelled to use 

 their bayonets in order to clear the streets, 

 and several of them were seriously wounded 

 by gunshots and stones. In the Boulevard St. 

 Michel the mounted police charged the crowd, 

 and, after great efforts, dispersed it. The 

 most serious disturbance was caused by a body 

 of workmen wearing blouses, who marched 

 from Bellville to the Boulevard du Temple 

 armed with iron rails wrested from the fence 

 of the market, with which they battered down 

 every lamp post on the entire route, destroyed 

 all the kiosks, and sacked a number of cafes 

 and stores, besides overturning all the omni- 

 buses and carriages that they came across. At 

 one point they attempted to raise a barricade 

 with a couple of omnibuses which they had 

 overturned, but the mounted patrol were on 

 the spot quick enough to prevent an act that 

 might have been very serious in its results. 

 This band got down as far as the Boulevard 

 du Temple, leaving its path strewn with wrecks 

 of carriages, cafe's, lamps, kiosks, signs, and 

 every thing that could be reached by the mob, 

 when the cavalry charged it and put it to flight. 

 The loss of life was somewhat serious, but it 

 is difficult to obtain the figures. Hundreds of 



arrests were made, and by two o'clock the city 

 had resumed its wonted quiet and tranquillity. 

 On the 10th of June there was another dem- 

 onstration in the Boulevard Montmartre, which 

 was still more serious than any preceding one. 

 At half-past eight o'clock the Boulevard was 

 literally crammed with people, some singing the 

 " Marseillaise " and uttering seditious cries, and 

 all more or less excited. Before nine o'clock 

 all the omnibuses and carriages were turned 

 off the boulevard to make their way as best 

 they could by the side streets. The police 

 were soon on the ground, more than 2,000 

 strong. Several companies of Gardes de Paris 

 were also brought up, while the mounted 

 police were stationed in the side streets in full 

 strength. The police attempted to keep the 

 street open by pushing through strong bodies 

 of sergents de ville en masse, but they only 

 infuriated the crowd, and made matters still 

 worse. The demonstrative portions of the 

 crowd were made up of blouses and black 

 coats, about equally divided. They were ex- 

 ceedingly noisy. They sung the " Marseillaise," 

 hurrahed for Kochefort, cried "Down with 

 Napoleon! " and shouted all sorts of seditious 

 calls. The cafes and stores were closed long 

 before ten o'clock, and the aspect of affairs 

 was accordingly gloomy. About midnight 

 there was a tremendous charge of troops, 

 on foot and mounted, and the crowd was 

 slowly dispersed, not without dashing off 

 into side streets and wreaking their vengeance 

 upon lamp-posts, kiosks, and every breakable 

 window. The damage to public and private 

 property was very considerable, and will long 

 be manifest. All the theatres were emptied 

 at an early hour by the revolutionary cries of 

 the mob, although strong detachments of sol- 

 diers were stationed at every entrance. Until 

 two o'clock of the morning of the llth of June 

 the mob was at its work of destruction, and 

 the police were engaged in making arrests. 

 More than 1,000 persons were arrested during 

 the night, but it did not seem to affect the 

 spirits of the balance of the mob in the least. 

 Several persons were killed and a great many 

 wounded by cavalry and infantry charges. 

 The police and soldiers suffered considerably 

 from flying stones and gunshots, though the 

 latter were very few. In the Faubourg St. 

 Antoine, about the Bastile, the situation was 

 exceedingly threatening. Large masses of 

 people had assembled in the quarter near the 

 Bastile. Charges of cavalry were required to 

 disperse the crowd around the Column of July, 

 and many were wounded in the affair, that 

 threatened to become very serious at one time, 

 but which passed away before the vigorous 

 action of the authorities. In all that part 

 of the city the excitement was intense, and 

 many bands of workmen and roughs circulated 

 through the streets and pillaged many shops 

 and cafes. On the evening of the llth new 

 disturbances broke out, which again required 

 the employment of cavalry. Similar tumults 



