[1] Memoir, see Appendix I.
[2] The police had seized, some time before, in Paris, ten thousand
Orsini bombs, and hundreds of others of a new construction, charged
with fulminating mercury.
[3] The eight gigantic female figures, representing the principal
towns of France: Strasbourg, Lille, Metz, &c., &c.
[4] “Joseph Prudhomme” is the typical representative of the Parisian
middle-class (_Bourgeois_); the honest simple father of family,
peaceful but patriotic, proud of his country and ready to die for it.
[Illustration: Purification of the Champs Élysées—After The Departure
of the Prussians Mar 1871. Building A Barricade. March 18. 1871.]