1828, ISBN: 9781235916472

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Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 Excerpt: . . . Paris rabble were engaged in plunder, and in stripping the bodies. As the fire-arms, when perfect, were seized at the gates of Paris, to prevent this, they broke them; and the lock, barrel, and ramrod, were separately carried into the citv for sale. The few whom mere curiosity had excited to visit the field of battle, were obliged to go in parties for mutual protection, as well from L the fear of the French pillagers as the Cossacks; but, notwithstanding this, many persons were robbed. Returning by the west side of Belleville, in the Rue St. Denis, No. 136, the right-hand corner of the Rue Thiery, I passed the house I saw burning during the battle. It was a handsome building, and had been a ladies boarding-school. The fire was occasioned by a shell from a howitzer breaking through the roof and exploding. All the houses in this district had been pillaged, every door and every shutter being broken open; but a Russian patrole, going the rounds, drove away the soldiery who were roaming about, seeking the gleanings of pillage. Between the village and the Butte St. Chaumont was a Russian post and a park of artillery. One of the three windmills on this side of the village was destroyed by the cannon-shot; every thing in the fields was trodden down, and the innumerable empty bottles with which this extensive and elevated plain was strewn, evinced that myriads had bivouacked on it after the battle. The firing of cannon at the Chateau de Vincennes, which still held out, was heard at intervals. I returned, at four oclock in the afternoon, by the Boulevard du Temple, whence, to the Boulevard des Italiens, a distance of more than a mile, I did not meet twenty persons who had white cockades. At the door of Tortonis coffee-house, the corner of the Rue Taitbout, I noti. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN.<