boulevard into all the streets. It was a devil-fish stretching out its

feelers. Flight? Why? Concealment? To what purpose? Death ran after you

quicker than you could fly. In the Rue Pagevin a soldier said to a

passer-by, "What are you doing here?" "I am going home." The soldier

kills the passer-by. In the Rue des Marais they kill four young men in

their own courtyard. Colonel Espinasse exclaimed, "After the bayonet,

cannon!" Colonel Rochefort exclaimed, "Thrust, bleed, slash!" and he

added, "It is an economy of powder and noise." Before Barbedienne's

establishment an officer was showing his gun, an arm of considerable

precision, admiringly to his comrades, and he said, "With this gun I can

score magnificent shots between the eyes." having said this, he aimed at

random at some one, and succeeded. The carnage was frenzied. While the

butchering under the orders of Carrelet filled the boulevard, the

Bourgon brigade devastated the Temple, the Marulaz brigade devastated

the Rue Rambuteau; the Renault division distinguished itself on the

other side of the water." Renault was that general, who, at Mascara,

had given his pistols to Charras. In 1848 he had said to Charras,

Europe must be revolutionized." And Charras had said, "Not quite so

fast!" Louis Bonaparte had made him a General of Division in July, 1851.

The Rue aux Ours was especially devastated. Morny that evening said to

Louis Bonaparte, "The 15th Light Infantry have scored a success. They

have cleaned out the Rue aux Ours."

At the corner of the Rue du Sentier an officer of Spahis, with his sword

raised, cried out, "This is not the sort of thing! You do not understand

at all. Fire on the women." A woman was flying, she was with child, she

falls, they deliver her by the means of the butt-ends of their muskets.

Another, perfectly distracted, was turning the corner of a street. She

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