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Bordeaux,
206
,
258–61
Bourbaki, General,
36
,
41
,
124
,
142
,
207–8
,
223
,
243
Bowles, Tommy,
67–69
,
80
,
87
,
93–96
,
98
n.,
107
,
119
,
124–6
,
132
,
136
,
144
,
150
,
153–5
,
166
,
174–5
,
179
,
183
,
192
,
210
,
214
,
220
,
230
,
232–4
,
253
,
427
Bozzacchi, Giuseppina,
136
n.
Bradlaugh, Charles,
163
Brown, William,
66–67
,
69
,
73
,
149
,
166
,
234
,
250
,
266
Brunel, Paul-Antoine,
267
,
275
,
278
,
280–1
,
286–7
,
301
,
315
,
347
,
364
,
370
,
381
,
384–6
,
390
,
401
,
415
,
425
Bry,
151
,
153
Buffet, balloonist,
125
Bugeaud, Marshal,
47–48
,
72
Burnside, General,
71
,
239
Busch, Dr. Moritz,
21
,
152
,
196–7
,
201
,
204
,
231
,
239
,
264
Buzenval,
224
,
231–5
,
242
Cannon, manufacture of,
134
Canrobert, Marshal,
11
,
41
Carlyle, Thomas,
38
,
163
,
293
Carnarvon, Earl of,
170
,
202
,
205
,
250
Carter, Charlie,
103
,
198
Cassagnac, Paul de,
98
Castiglione, Comtesse de,
17–18
,
30
Castor and Pollux, elephants, slaughter of,
179
Cavour,
22
Châlons-sur-Marne,
44
,
47
,
49–50
Chambord, Comte de,
28
Champigny,
151
,
153
Chanzy, General,
157
,
190
,
206
,
224
,
235
,
273
Charles, Professor,
121
Chassepots
,
41–42
,
99
,
272
Chastel, M.,
372
,
381
,
391
Château-Thierry-sur-Marne,
75
Châtillon plateau,
63
,
76–80
,
102
,
137
143
,
211–12
Chaudey, Gustave,
237
,
355
,
388
Child, Edwin,
x
,
8
,
25
,
39
,
46
,
54
,
59
,
66
,
86
,
95
,
124
,
149
,
166
,
180
,
185
,
196
,
216
,
226–30
,
241
,
247
,
250
,
253
,
277
,
282
,
308
,
312
,
323–4
,
347–9
,
352
,
357–9
,
366–7
,
369
,
388
,
390
,
402–3
,
413
,
421
,
426
Choisy-le-Roi,
78
,
156
Churchill, Winston,
x
,
427
Cipriani,
310
Cissey, General,
324–5
,
367
,
371
,
397–8
,
400
Claremont, Colonel,
168
Clarendon, Lord,
34
Clarétie, Jules,
113
,
119
,
144
,
238
,
242
Clemenceau, Georges,
x
,
107
,
235
,
256
,
271–3
,
282–4
,
287
,
300
n.,
305
Clinchant, General,
347
,
367
,
371
,
377
,
380
,
382
,
384
,
400
Cluseret, Gustave-Paul,
206
,
345
; delegated to Ministry of War,
312–13
,
317
; early career of,
315–16
; character and appearance,
316–17
; army reforms of,
318–19
; criticism of, over Fort Issy and Neuilly,
325
; arrested,
326
; obtains permit for Washburne to visit Archbishop of Paris,
353
; tried and released,
364
; escape from France, and return,
424–5
Cœuilly
153
,
155
,
157
Collet, officer,
343
Combat, Le
,
89–90
,
107
,
132
,
238
,
297
Commune of Paris, problems posed by,
15
; emergence of,
15
,
281
ff.,
290
; Comité Central of the Twenty
Arrondissements
,
92
, 283; Comité Central de la Garde Nationale,
268
,
275
,
278
ff.,
292
,
374
; spread of,
287
; definition of,
291–4
; components of,
294
ff.; Parisian life under,
304–6
; military set-backs of,
309–14
,
319–26
; ‘Law of Hostages’,
311
,
313
,
353
,
375
; internal friction among,
330
,
332–3
,
342–3
,
346
,
352
,
375
; legislation by,
330–1
,
364
; ‘testament’ of,
331–2
; Committee of Public Safety,
333–4
,
346
,
375
,
376
,
398
; shaping of final image of,
334
ff.; dictatorship triumphs over democracy,
346
,
348
; crisis approaches,
348
; suppression of newspapers by,
348
; fear of growing excesses by,
352
; arranges great open-air concert,
361
; final confrontation with Versailles forces,
362
ff.; confusion among,
374–5
; burning of Paris by,
385
; last days of,
398
ff.; left leaderless,
402
; last headquarters of,
409
; final proclamation of,
410
; end of,
413
,
420
; ‘expiation’ of Communards,
414
ff.; escapes by Communards,
424–6
; effects of, on world structure,
428–33
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