. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. of a distin-guished officer, afterwards a member of Marshal McMahons staff. I suc-ceeded in returning to Paris before the gates were closed, and at theend of the siege I heard of the varied experiences of my family. Theyreached Granville at nightfall in a pouring rain, and found no roof toshelter them. They were consequently obliged to take up their quar-ters in an omnibus. The next day the good Madame Tamajo securedfor Mrs. Read a small house in the main street, which was over a tailorsshop. The following morning as she issued forth t
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. of a distin-guished officer, afterwards a member of Marshal McMahons staff. I suc-ceeded in returning to Paris before the gates were closed, and at theend of the siege I heard of the varied experiences of my family. Theyreached Granville at nightfall in a pouring rain, and found no roof toshelter them. They were consequently obliged to take up their quar-ters in an omnibus. The next day the good Madame Tamajo securedfor Mrs. Read a small house in the main street, which was over a tailorsshop. The following morning as she issued forth to make her purchases forthe family, she met M. Maurice Richard, late minister of fine arts underthe empire, who had dined with us only a few months before in the avenuedAntin. He was coming up the steep street carrying a small jar of but-ter decorated with vine leaves. She found that he and his family wereliving in a small house opposite, over a cobblers stall. Granville was a most primitive place, modern conveniences having not THE SPARTANS OF PARIS 83. M. FORTUNE DU BOISGOBEY. yet taken up their abode in it. One could almost imagine the habits andcustoms which prevailed when the town first came into prominence aboutthe fifteenth century. Although Granville was represented by a castleand a little chapel as far back as the tenth century, the town possessedbut small importance until the time of Charles VII., who surrounded itwith walls and fortifications. These were demolished by order of LouisXIV., but were set up again and strengthened in 1720. The readers ofM. du Boisgobeys works will remember his account of the Vendeen armyunder La Rochejaquelin, and its assault upon Granville, in 1793, and itssubsequent repulse. It is a curious circumstance that one of the journals of the 27th Feb-ruary, 1891, the day after the death of M. du Boisgobey, stated that hisreal name was Fortune Castille, and that he was born at Granville; whileanother paper declared that he was the son of M. Abr
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