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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy
Year: 1886 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ulously escaped wreck inthe midst of the ruin of the Palais deJustice. The noted prison of the Con-ciergerie, so famous in the old Revolu-tion, was badly damaged, but the regu-lars came too quickly into this neigh-borhood to allow the complete ac-complishment of the Communists evildesigns. On this fatal day, the 24th of May,at the close of which the good Arch-bishop and his comrades in misfortun*?were destined to be murdered, theoflScial journal of the Commune pub-lished an extract from another radicaljournal, warning the insurrectionistsagaint any violence to the priesthood,saying that its only result Avould be fiftyyears more of clericalism. But the menwho might have listened to reason, hadthe regular troops still been without thefortifications, thought, now that disasterand probable death were at their gates,of nothing but revenge. )SI. Thierscame into Paris on this Wednesday, andremained an hour, and it is even saidthat he or Marshal MacMahon, who had EUROPE IN SrORM AND CALM. 495
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496 EUROPE IN STORM AND CALM. been in Paris since the previous Suncla),ought to have taken more vigorous meas-ures to have rescued the Archbishopfrom the imminent peril in which he wasplaced. When the news of the execu-tion of the hostages was announced inthe fashionable quarters along thegrand boulevards, and in the Rue de laPaix, the excitement was very great.Men went about the street cursing theinsurrection in loud and bitter tones,and whenever a prisoner was brought inon his way to the Place Vendome, theywould rush out and strike him with theircanes. Mr. Washburne, our Americanminister, took constant and carefulmeasures in the Archbishops behalfduring the whole of this terrible weel<,until the fatal Wednesday night. Hehimself has given a most interesting ac-count of his visits to the distinguishedprelate, and of the fortitude and sweet-ness of temper displayed by him in suchcircumstances of deadly peril. A littleenerg)^ which had been lacking in Francesince the creation of the

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