The New York herald., 1870-11-23
PAST slEaEs OF PARIS.

Terrible SuRcrings and Great Endurance in
Former Years-Powdered Bones TO Make
Bread-Donkeys Eaten--rhe Monks Fat all
the Time, and How-Otho, Einpe. or Of Ger
many, at the Gates.
A Liverpool Journal publishes the following in
teresung rasume OF former seges OF Parls--
While the world waits in listening expectatlon for
the tnunder OF the guns that are To rain down 1'e
and hail upon the fnirest capital ia Europe recol.
lection Of the horrors Of past sleges Of Paris may
nelp TO quicken the percepS ion Of tho terrible nature
oi that which may be to come. We know the city in
rs beauty and It's pride It's silver thread Of river
banks; Its planted boulevars gay with the iie
Of pleasure that found Its centre there; It's wide
streets anu stately architecture; its monuments OF
art; its cathedral churches palaces and theatres;
ITS fragments 81 antiquity noary with eight hundred
iogne IT'S pleasant gardens ana promenades, where
light hearted crowd. gathered from the four COR
Ders OF the ear saunered lelsurey under the clear
SKY OF summer, us II peace were eternal But the
picture has changed
history may naturally turn TO the records OF former
seges OF Paris 70 see how she las stood this ulti-
the current number OF the Contemporary Recfec has
done SO In n well written narrative showing both
knowledge o. his subject and good taste in It's treat
ment. II will be sufficient to pass over with NEIL
ton the first great siege OF Paris by the Normans
when Eudes, Uoit OF Paris, hrs brother Robert and
the Archbishop Gozelin saved, BY their heroic
efforts, the city, which the imbecc Charles che Fat
abandoned 10 It's fate The event was great one.
IL decided virtually The fate oil the CarloviLgian
dynasty IN France ana 1t ls innlortallzed, under
thin veil or nction in The great poem OF aArIoston
hundred years rs @ ateo oo - II EmperSr en Of Ger
after useless bravado at M0ntnartre.
When Edward LII. invaded France In 1885, he block
AIDED Paris for q time; anu an Incident Of the SIEGE
with Its pleasant touch OF human laZness agreeaDly
relieves the monotony OF the story. The Parisiars
mathis should cover the sound OF the enemy's APP
proach In the DARK that was ordered mathis should
instead OF at midnignt; change onnd SO arreeabIe
In some cOnvcnis, says chrOncler, that they con-
tinned TO sing mathis at curfew instead Of at mid.
night long after the English had departed.
Henry VS. occupation OF Paris after the treaty OF
Troyes and the perrnanence OF an English garrison
within Its walls for fourteen years after his deafh
filled a most disastrous perlo Tor France, and the
horrors Of the country were intensified In the CITY,
one-haf IN tne journal d'Ma Bourgeois de Paris
the writer says he saw boys and girls lying on dirt
dyg Lying Of angen Dogs became Became 50 , angeFous tha M
dog Killers were appointed: and from the environs
woyes entered &c night and attacked people in the
street. Death itself became happiness In The dread
ful frost Of one winter, when II IS sad 10 have
showed for forty days and forty nights, and men
lay down In the open, neryeleSs from hunger and
cold, TO sleep the sleep which Knows waking.
The last great slege Of Paris was III 1880. AT that
Che dominion OF the League, composed OF the con-
seft des Seize, led by the Guses, swayed by the In
Henry Ill mad fallen BY the Knie Of s JacSnes ps1Eo or
ment as but few months earlier he had caused the
Duke de Guise to perish by the daggers Of Mont
th6ry and LOgnnc. Joined With his cousin, Henry
OF Navarro, he had marched to sbduc the city from
which ne had been cast out, and he then said to
nave pronounced threat or exterminatlon mat
finds partial echo now. at would be a great pity
20 ruin 80 great city, but musv have my rights on
aud Is the heart We must STRIKE. % Paris "a ISL heaa Of
"a a0e ar,.,i!s Knxdom, bn. head too large and too
ana AZ the s1a rest want az n eang 70 % cnre YOU
impart your madness But few davs longer and
there viii be seen neither houses nor walls, but
Olily the place where thou hast been.n The death
OF the author OF this pous aspiration compelled his
cousin. now Henry ~. to withdraw for time, TIL,
lasting three months and seven days. Tie city
linen % tenth OF It's present size1namnered over two
churches and sixty converts. fe an - -
the investing army, fresh from The battle field OF
walls there were flity thousand militia andc about
pieces Or cannon. Paris was Catholic and lis assa
used by the defenders to Stimulate the popuiace to
extraordinary endurance. The investment was
being able 10 arrive ~ the Sene ,an,Sy apy
rose In price I'LL they could not be bought for
INTO es Hena9 e s wa
That tne progress OF the siege depended solely upon
the power o. the inhabltants 70 Withstand the grad.
June-the wheat being exhausted ana the poor suf
fering severely. while the members Of the religious
1t was decided that religious houses should maintain
the poor On an Inventory being taken OF tine cccle-
corn Tor more than year, the Capuchns had bIs.
cult In abundance, and generally the religious
houses were furnished for Six months more; fact
that does not Of course escape Voltares satirical
mention in his "HenraGe.' aF t*~~ tl z -.
Soon Paris contained only two casses--the poor
VINO had money and no tood and the poor who had
nellher iood nor money. AS long as the latter
was o. any nse the silver ornaments OF the
Churches were sold to buy provisions; but
eventually the stores or the monasterles were ex-
nausted, no corn was left, sheep and had dis
sppearei, only the nesh OF horses, asses and o es
VIZ, M.s 10 DC obtained. According TO contemporary
sssncns OF the Beseged Resident" who cor
IesPonns Win The DaRy Ae,ps-dopkey NJ very good
eatmg; aud cat be anpIDs 10 he q dcllcacy against