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the parties. As we approached the railway, the barricades were 

 no longer formed of palings, planks, or stones ; but they had 

 got all the omnibuses as they passed, sent the horses and pas- 

 sengers about their business, and turned them over. A double 

 row of overturned coaches made a capital barricade, with a few 

 paving stones. 



' When I got home I found to my astonishment that in our 

 fighting quarter it was much quieter. Mamma had just been out 

 seeing the troops in the Place de la Concorde, when suddenly 

 the Municipal Guard, now fairly exasperated, prevented the 

 National Guard from proceeding, and fired at them ; the Na- 

 tional Guard had come with their musquets not loaded, but at 

 length returned the fire. Mamma saw the National Guard fire. 

 The Municipal Guard were round the corner. She was delighted 

 for she saw no person killed, though many of the Municipals 

 were. . . . 



* 1 immediately went out with my papa (mamma had just 

 come back with him) and went to the Place de la Concorde. There 

 was an enormous quantity of troops in the Place. Suddenly the 

 gates of the gardens of the Tuileries opened : we rushed forward, 

 out gallopped an enormous number of cuirassiers, in the middle 

 of which were a couple of low carriages, said first to contain the 

 Count de Paris and the Duchess of Orleans, but afterwards they 

 said it was the King and Queen ; and then I heard he had ab- 

 dicated. I returned and gave the news. 



' Went out again up the Boulevards. The house of the 

 Minister of Foreign Affairs was filled with people and " Hotel da 

 Peuple " written on it ; the Boulevards were barricaded with fine 

 old trees that were cut down and stretched all across the road. 

 We went through a great many little streets, all strongly barri- 

 caded, and sentinels of the people at the principal of them. The 

 streets are very unquiet, filled with armed men and women, for 

 the troops had followed the ex- King to Neuilly and left Paris in 

 the power of the people. We met the captain of the Third 

 Legion of the National Guard (who had principally protected the 

 people), badly wounded by a Municipal Guard, stretched on a 

 litter. He was in possession of his senses. He was surrounded 



