The world: historical and actual . er-ment. Dazed by the unaccustomed light of free-dom, the Parisians were precipitated, at first, into afrenzied communism. All the horrors of the greatrevolution were revived. Leaders, maddened bylong suppression and disasters in war, sprang to thefront with the inauguration of another reign of ter-ror. Some very worthy people were cruelly slaugh-tered. The outlook was gloomy in the more women of the humbler class rushed wildly about as if they were daughters of the threeFuries. Petroleum was used as an agent of indis-criminate destruction. The C
The world: historical and actual . er-ment. Dazed by the unaccustomed light of free-dom, the Parisians were precipitated, at first, into afrenzied communism. All the horrors of the greatrevolution were revived. Leaders, maddened bylong suppression and disasters in war, sprang to thefront with the inauguration of another reign of ter-ror. Some very worthy people were cruelly slaugh-tered. The outlook was gloomy in the more women of the humbler class rushed wildly about as if they were daughters of the threeFuries. Petroleum was used as an agent of indis-criminate destruction. The Column Vendome wasone of the more conspicuous objects of destructivefrenzy. But that delirium of retribution was brief, andnot without its benefits. It served to show thedepth and intensity of the sentiment for as was the defeat of the French army,the fall of the empire was ample compensation to thepeople, and in the darkest hours oi the nation thehope of Republicanism shone as a star of the morning in the hori-. Palace of the Tuilleries. the Residence of Napoleon in. zon of pop-ular opin-ion. Napoleonsurrenderedto the Prus-sians Sep-tember 2,1870, andthe siege ofParis wascomplete onSeptember19th. It wason the sev-enth of thenext monththat Gaiu-betta, theone greatstatesman of France, then Minister of the In-terior, with authority to act as Minister ofWar, escaped from Paris in a balloon, and atonce set about organizing an army of hoped to break the siege by attack from with-out. But he could not. In January followingParis was obliged to open its gates to the enemyand submit to such terms as the conquering Ger-mans might dictate. Those terms were the surren-der of Alsace and Lorraine and the payment of anindemnity of 81,000,000,000, the Germans to en-tirely evacuate the country only after all the moneyhad been paid. It was submission to these hardterms and the removal of the Government from Paristo Versailles that especially fired the frenzy of the c
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