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Title: Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm
Year: 1885 (1880s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
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Publisher: Springfield, Mass., C.A. Nichols & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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s troops had es- a sharp halt by a sentinel, who assuredtablished their batteries on a plateau me that I could go no farther ; and evenbetween Meudon and Issy, ami were the production of numerous Communisticfirinc briskly. But the fort, which was passes was of only sufficient avail to EUROPE IN STORM AND CADI. 441 procure me a threat of immediate arrest now endeavoring to retake. This barri- if I ventured to mount the ramparts. I cade was stoutly defended by the insur- turned away, ami proceeded in the direc- gents, who were protected by batteries tion of the Triumphal Arch. On getting on all sides. near this monument, whence I could In and around the Triumphal Arch, and have an unobstructed view of the Neuilly half-way down the avenue of the Grand gate and as far as Courbevoie, on the Army, in the direction of the fighting, long, straight avenue of Neuilly, which was clustered, perched, stuffed, packed, runs without the slightest curve or break and jammed together, a crowd of perhaps
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THE RUE PERRONET AT NEUILLY. until the hill shuts out the view beyond,I saw that a battle was engaged, andshells were beginning to fall unpleasantlynear. Many exploded in the air, and each shell was said to have one hundredbullets in it. At the top of the hill justmentioned is a large tower, and half-waybetween this tower and the gate of theParis fortifications was a huge barricade,which the Versailles troops had held theday before, had abandoned, and were thirty thousand people. Must of thesewere citizens of Paris, and from the upperclasses. They were in carriages anddog-carts, mounted on omnibuses, andon the balconies and roofs of the sur-rounding houses. Men and women,elegantly dressed, joked and laughedover the struggles of the lighting men onthe hills and plains below. It was likea ( Wand Prix day in the Boisde Boulogne.It was impossible for a stranger to under- 442 EUROTE IX STURM AND CALM. stand how these people of society looked immense clouds of smoke, for ten minutes with su

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