Adde, a bookseller, of 17, Boulevard Poissonnière, is standing before his

door; they kill him. At the same moment, for the field of murder is vast,

at a considerable distance from there, at 5, Rue de Lancry, M. Thirion de

Montauban, owner of the house, is at his door; they kill him. In the Rue

Tiquetonne a child of seven years, named Boursier, is passing by; they

kill him. Mdlle. Soulac, 196, Rue du Temple, opens her window; they kill

her. At No. 97, in the same street, two women, Mesdames Vidal and

Raboisson, sempstresses, are in their room; they kill them. Belval, a

cabinet-maker, 10, Rue de la Lune, is at home; they kill him. Debaëcque,

a merchant, 45, Rue du Sentier, is in his own house; Couvercelle,

florist, 257, Rue Saint Denis, is in his own house; Labitte, a jeweller,

5, Boulevard Saint Martin, is in his own house; Monpelas, perfumer, 181,

Rue Saint Martin, is in his own house; they kill Monpelas, Labitte,

Couvercelle, and Debaëcque. They sabre at her own home, 240, Rue Saint

Martin, a poor embroideress, Mdlle. Seguin, who not having sufficient

money to pay for a doctor, died at the Beaujon hospital, on the 1st of

January, 1852, on the same day that the Sibour Te Deum was chanted at

Notre Dame. Another, a waistcoat-maker, Françoise Noël, was shot down at

0, Rue du Faubourg Montmartre, and died in the Charité. Another, Madame

Ledaust, a working housekeeper, living at 76, Passage du Caire, was shot

down before the Archbishop's palace, and died at the Morgue. Passers-by,

Mdlle. Gressier, living at 209, Faubourg Saint Martin; Madame Guilard,

living at 77, Boulevard Saint Denis; Madame Gamier, living at 6,

Boulevard Bonne Nouvelle, who had fallen, the first named beneath the

volleys on the Boulevard Montmartre, the two others on the Boulevard

Saint Denis, and who were still alive, attempted to rise, and became

targets for the soldiers, bursting with laughter, and this time fell back

again dead. Deeds of gallantry ware performed. Colonel Rochefort, who was

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