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Chapter 27

The review of June 29th: chiefly Thiers. Ruins and recovery of Paris: Child diaries, Buss, Goncourt, Gautier, Gibson, Spears, Péguret, Castelot. Trials and sentences of Communards: Rossel, Rochefort, Buss, Lissagaray, Jellinek, da Costa, Bruhat, Thiers, Bourgin (2). Much of the details of the subsequent life of the Communard surviviors comes from Bruhat; Augustus John’s description of Louise Michel in old age is from
Chiaroscuro
; for confirmation of ‘Burner Brunel’s’ more peaceful employment in England, I am indebted to the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth; the notes on Roche-fort’s later career were partly furnished by Frank Harris, in
My Life and Loves
. The notes on Richard Wallace come partly from Falk and the Wallace Collection; on Edwin Child, from Miss E. Child; on Labouchere from Hesketh Pearson’s
Labby
; on Tommy Bowles, from Winston Churchill’s
My Early Life
. Notes on the Marxist-Leninist interpretation of the Commune: Marx (1) and (2), Berlin, Bruhat, Lenin, Rihs, Mason. Auguste Renoir’s quote, ‘little flame which never dies’, is drawn from Jean Renoir.

Index

Adam, Edmond,
107–8
,
113
,
116–17
,
118–19
,
335
,
424

Adam, Juliette,
see
Lambert, Juliette

Affre, Mgr.,
396
n.

Alexander II, Tsar,
8
,
11–12
,
37

Allix, Jules,
132–3
,
237
,
299
,
344
,
392
,
410

Alsace-Lorraine,
82
,
135
,
199
,
258–9
,
428

‘Amazons of the Seine’,
132–3

Amberley, Lady,
17
,
38
,
44–45
,
162–3

America, relations with Paris,
38
,
72–73
,
171
,
248–9

Arago, Etienne,
57
,
109–10
,
115–16

Arlandes, Marquis d’,
121

Arnould,
237

Asnières,
319

Assi, Adolphe-Alphonse,
279
,
288
,
312
,
364
,
366
,
422

Audebrand, Philibert,
345

Aurelle de Paladines, General d’,
140
,
142
,
146
,
157
,
190
,
200
,
206
,
260
,
268
,
284

Avrial,
343
,
344

Avron plateau,
205
,
209–11

Bakunin,
206
,
314
,
316

Balloons,
83–85
,
121–31
,
138–9
,
144–6
,
193
,
243
,
433
Archimède
,
130
Armand Barbès
,
85
Bataille de Paris
,
156
Céleste
,
83
,
123
,
127
Chanzy
,
130
Daguerre
,
128
,
129
,
130
Duquesne
,
127
États-Unis, Les
,
123
Galilée
,
130
Géant
,
123
Impérial
,
123
Jacquard
,
130
Jean Bart
,
127
Jules Favre No. 2
,
156
Montgolfier
,
124
,
130
Neptune
,
83
Niepce
,
128
Normandie
,
130
Richard Wallace
,
243
Vauban
,
130
Ville de Florence
,
124
Ville d’Orléans
,
130
,
144
Ville de Paris
,
130

Barouche, Major Ernest,
105

Barucci, Giulia,
18

Baudelaire,
19
,
28

‘Baudin Trial’,
32
,
84

Bauer, Mgr., Archbishop of Syracuse
158–9

Bazaine, General,
41
,
44–45
,
48–50
,
53
,
106
,
107
,
206

Beaufort, Captain de,
393

Belfort,
258
,
261

Bellemare, Carey de,
104–5
,
156
,
231–3

Belly, Félix,
132–3

Bénédetti, Ambassador
36–37

Berezowski,
12
,
37
,
423

Bergeret, Commander Jules,
285–6
,
301
,
307
,
309–10
,
312
,
315
,
317
,
341
,
386–7
,
424

Bernhardt, Sarah,
187

Bertaux, Abbé,
338

Berthydre, Citizen,
92

Bertrand, Adjutant,
237

Beslay, Charles,
300
,
301–2
,
357
,
422
n.

Béziers, balloonist,
144–5

Bignon,
294

Billioray,
364
,
415
,
422

Bismarck,
22
,
77
,
137
,
161
,
268
; at Great Exhibition,
89
; puts up candidate for Spanish throne,
36
; and Ems Telegram,
37
; fear of a Republic,
75–76
; at Ferrières peace talks,
81–82
; refuses continuance of talks,
120
; against balloon flights,
125
,
129
; anxiety over intervention by great powers,
162
,
164–5
; predicts break in Parisian morale,
177
; his ‘blood and iron’ diplomacy,
196
; moves to Versailles,
196
; mode of living,
197
; ill health of,
199
,
202
; has visions of the future,
199–200
; favours bombardment of Paris,
203–5
; fixes armistice terms,
239–40
,
258
,
428
; agrees to increase in French Regular Army
314
; humiliation of France by, now forgotten,
433