Brought forward 90,500,000
Churches 1,000,000
Barracks 1,000,000
Theatres 7,000,000
Reparation of public buildings 1,000,000
Palaces and monuments burned 114,000,000
Reparation of palaces and monuments 1,000,000
War expenses 260,000,000
Houses burned 78,000,000
Houses half burned or damaged 34,000,000
The villages in the environs of Paris 70,000,000
Railroads 10,000,000
Commerce 200,000,000
- Total 867,500,000
Among the men who supported the Communal insurrection might be counted a great number of foreigners. Many of these belonged to the International Society, fanatics who had volunteered for the cause of Socialism, numbering perhaps 20,000, and who obeyed implicitly every order of the Society received through the medium of the Central Committee.
The war with Prussia had also drawn towards the unhappy city of Paris a large number of adventurers of every race and climate, who flock always towards any spot where events are thrown out of their ordinary course by some great excitement.
Among the thousands of prisoners who defiled along the boulevards might be seen Russians, Italians, Greeks, Wallachians, Belgians, Dutch, Irish, Spanish, and, above all, Poles.
Among the chiefs, the number of foreigners was also considerable, and seemed gathered from all quarters of the globe. Every nation had one or more representatives, as may be seen by the following list:
Anys-el-Biltar, director of manuscripts at the National Library (Egyptian).
