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| CHAPTER VIII. | ||
| DESPERATE SORTIES OF THE FRENCH TROOPS. | ||
| General Ducrot’s Effort to Break Through the Prussian Lines—Defeated and Driven Back—Sufferings of the Troops from the Intense Cold—Disaster to the Army of the Loire—The Parisians Determined to Hold Out—Gloomy Winter Days in the Besieged City—Another Unsuccessful Sortie | 238 | |
| CHAPTER IX. | ||
| BEFORE AND DURING THE BOMBARDMENT. | ||
| A Gloomy Christmas Day—Scarcity of Meat and Fuel—The Parisians Losing Heart—Recollections of an Illinois Campaign—Dismal Opening of the New Year—Beginning of the Bombardment—Shells Bursting in the City Streets—The Killed and Wounded—Protest of the Diplomatic Corps | 272 | |
| CHAPTER X. | ||
| THE END OF THE SIEGE. | ||
| Diplomatic Correspondence—Bismarck Explains the Taking of Hostages by the Germans—Controversy over the American Despatch Bag—The Last Days of the Bombardment—Another Great and Fruitless Sortie—Trochu Succeeded by Vinoy —The Uproar of the Mob—Fired upon by the Mobiles—An Armistice at Last—The Siege Raised | 302 | |
