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Excerpt from The Paris Commune
The Paris Commune: its history and meaning.
To begin, I take the story of "The New-York Tribune:" abridging, but nowhere altering, "The Tribune's" reports. In the accompanying notes I make such additions and corrections as I find fairly authenticated in the various Paris journals of the same dates.
Paris, March 9, 1871. The Committee of the Bordeaux Assembly reports in favor of removing to Fontainebleau. Thiers persists in preferring Versailles.
March 10. A private dispatch from Paris states that the National Guards are strongly intrenched in Montmartre, with thirty-three guns, awaiting the signal of their leaders to proclaim open revolution in favor of the Commune; also threatening to dissolve the Assembly if it meets at Versailles. The Government is conciliatory.
March 14. The insurgents have given in.
March 16. They are scattering on account of the weather.
March 17. The situation is unchanged. No acts of violence have been committed.
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