Paris under the Commune Part 38

_Wednesday, 22nd March_: Friends of Order shot in the Rue de la Paix.

Lullier arrested by order of the Central Committee.

_Thursday, 23rd March_: Vice-Admiral Saisset is appointed by the a.s.sembly Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard.

_Friday, 24th March_: The delegates Brunel, Eudes, Duval, are promoted to the rank of generals by the Central Committee. Vice-Admiral Saisset's proclamation.

_Sat.u.r.day, 29th March_: Occupation of the Mairie of the 1st Arrondiss.e.m.e.nt by the Federals. First placard of the Committee of Conciliation. Rumour of the arrest of Lullier reproached for moderation.

Vice-Admiral Saisset retires to Versailles. _Sunday, 26th March_: Munic.i.p.al elections to const.i.tute the Commune of Paris.

_Tuesday, 28th March_: 4 p.m., names of the elect proclaimed at the Hotel de Ville. Arrival of General Chanzy at Versailles.

_Wednesday, 29th March_: Conscription abolished--all citizens to be National Guards. p.a.w.nbroking decree. Organisation of commissions: executive, financial, military, etc. Ministers to be called delegates.

_Sat.u.r.day, 1st April_: The Executive Committee issues a decree to suppress the rank and functions of General-in-Chief. General Eudes appointed Delegate of War; Bergeret to the staff of the National Guard, in place of Brunel; Duval to the military command of the ex-Prefecture of Police, where Raoul Rigault was civil delegate.

_Sunday, 2nd April_: Military operations commence 9 a.m. Action at Courbevoie. Flourens marches his troops to Versailles, _via_ Rueil.

_Monday, 3rd April_: The corps d'armee of General Bergeret at the Rond Point near Neuilly, is stopped by the artillery of Mont Valerien.

Exchange of shot between Fort Issy and Fort Vanves, occupied by insurgents, and Meudon.--The separation of Church and State decreed.

_Tuesday, 4th April_: General Duval made prisoner in the engagement at Chatillon and shot. Death of Flourens at Rueil.--Delescluze, Cournet, and Vermorel succeed Generals Bergeret, Eudes, and Duval on the Executive Commission. Cluseret Delegate of War, and Bergeret commandant of Paris forces.

_Wednesday, 6th April_: General Cluseret commences active operations.

Military service compulsory for all citizens under forty. Abbe Deguerry, and Archbishop of Paris arrested.

_Thursday, 6th April_: Extension of action to Neuilly and Courbevoie.

Versailles army decreed by executive authority. Obsequies of Flourens at Versailles.--Decree concerning the complicity with Versailles, and arrest of hostages. The rank of general suppressed by the Commune.

Dombrowski succeeds Bergeret as Commandant of Paris.

_Friday, 7th April_: Decree for disarming the Refractaires. The guillotine is burnt on the Place Voltaire.

_Sat.u.r.day, 8th April_: Federals abandon Neuilly.--Commission of barricades created and presided over by Gaillard Senior. Military occupation of the railway termini by the insurgents.

_Sunday, 9th April_: Insurgents attempt to retake Chatillon, but are repulsed. Forts Vanves and Montrouge disabled. Mont Valerien sh.e.l.ls the Avenue des Ternes.--a.s.sy and Bergeret arrested by order of the Commune.

_Tuesday, 11th April_: Marshal MacMahon, Commander-in-Chief, distributes his forces. Commences the investment of fort Issy.

_Wednesday, 12th April_: Versailles batteries established on Chatillon.

The Orleans railway and telegraph out. Communications of the insurgents with the south intercepted.--Decree ordering the fall of the Column Vendome. Decree concerning the complementary elections.

_Thursday, 13th April:_ Courbet presides at a meeting of artists at the ecole de Medecine. Publication of the reports of the sittings of the Commune.

_Friday, 14th April_: The redoubt of Gennevilliers taken. The troops of Versailles make advances to the Chateau de Becon, a post of importance.--Lullier takes the command of the flotilla on the Seine.

_Sunday, 16th April_: Complementary elections. Organisation of a court-martial under the presidence of Rossel, chief officer of the staff.

_Monday, 11th April_: Capture and fortification of the Chateau de Becon.

_Tuesday, 18th April_: Station and houses at Asnieres taken by the army of Versailles.

_Thursday, 20th April_: The village of Bagneux is occupied by the Versaillais.--Reorganisation of commissions. Eudes appointed inspector-general of the southern forts. Transfers his quarters from Montrouge to the Palace of the Legion of Honour.

_Sat.u.r.day, 22nd April_: Deputation from the Freemasons to Versailles.

_Monday, 24th April_: Raoul Rigault takes the office of public prosecutor, resigning the Prefecture of Police to Cournet.

_Tuesday, 25th April_: The Versailles batteries at Breteuil, Brimborion, Meudon, and Moulin de Pierre trouble the Federal Fort Issy, and battery between Bagneux and Chatillon sh.e.l.ls Fort Vanves. Truce at Neuilly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The inhabitants of Neuilly enter Paris by the Porte des Ternes.

_Wednesday, 26th April_: Capture of Les Moulineaux, outpost of the insurgents, by the troops, who strongly fortify themselves on the 27th and 28th.

_Sat.u.r.day, 29th April_: Cemetery and park of Issy taken by the Versaillais in the night.--Freemasons make a new attempt at conciliation. The Commune levies a sum of two millions of francs from the railway companies.

_Sunday, 30th April_: A flag of truce sent to Fort Issy by the Versaillais, calling upon the Federals to surrender. General Eudes puts fresh troops in the fort, and takes the command himself.--Cluseret imprisoned at Mazas by order of the Commune. Rossel appointed provisional Delegate of War.

_Monday, 1st May_: The Versaillais take the station of Clamart and the Chateau of Issy.--Creation of the Committee of Public Safety. Members: Antoine Arnauld, Leo Meillet, Ranvier, Felix Pyat, Charles Gerardin.

_Wednesday, 3rd May_: The troops of General Lacretelle carry the redoubt of Moulin Saquet.

_Friday, 5th May_: Colonel Rossel appointed to the direction of military affairs. He defines the military quarters: General Dombrowski, Place Vendome; General La Cecilia, at the Ecole Militaire; General Wroblewski, at the Elysee; General Bergeret, at the Corps Legislatif; General Eudes at the Palace of the Legion of Honour. The Central Committee of the National Guard charged with Administration of War under the supervision of the military commission. The Chapelle Expiatoire condemned to destruction--the materials to be sold by auction.

_Sat.u.r.day, 6th May_: Concert at the Tuileries in aid of the ambulances.

Suppression of newspapers.

_Monday, 8th May_: Battery of Montretout (70 marine guns) opens fire.

_Tuesday, 9th May_: Morning, insurgents evacuate the Fort Issy.--The Committee of Public Safety renewed. Members: Ranvier, Antoine Arnauld, Gambon, Eudes, Delescluze. Rossel resigns; his letter to the Commune.

_Wednesday, 10th May_: Cannon from the Fort Issy taken to Versailles.--Decree for the demolition of M. Thiers' house. Delescluze appointed Delegate of War.

_Friday, 12th May_: Troops take possession of the Couvent des Oiseaux at Issy, and the Lyceum at Vanves.

_Sat.u.r.day, 13th May_: Triumphal entry of the troops into Versailles with flags and cannon taken from the Convent. The evacuation of the village of Issy completed. Fort Vanves taken by the troops.

_Sunday, 14th May_: Vigorous cannonade from the batteries of Courbevoie, Becon, Asnieres on Levallois and Clichy: both villages evacuated.

Commencement of the demolition of house of M. Thiers.

_Monday, 15th May_: Report of the rearmament of Montmartre.

_Tuesday, 16th May_: The Column Vendome falls.

_Wednesday, 11th May_: Powder magazine and cartridge factory near the Champ de Mars blown up.

_Sunday, 21st May_: 2 p.m. the troops enter Paris.--Rochefort arrives at Versailles. Raoul Rigault and Regere charged with the hostage decree.

_Monday, 22nd May_: Noon, explosion of the powder magazine of the Manege d'Etat-Major (staff riding-school). The hostages transferred from Mazas to La Roquette. a.s.sy arrested in Paris by the Versaillais. The a.s.sembly votes the re-erection of the Column Vendome.

_Tuesday, 23rd May_: Montmartre taken. Death of Dombrowski. Morning, a.s.sy arrives at Versailles. Execution of gendarmes and Gustave Chaudey at the prison of Sainte-Pelagie. Night, the Tuileries are set on fire.

Delescluze and the Committee of Public Safety hold permanent sittings at the Hotel de Ville.