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srEaEs OF PARIS.

tue maritime regions, from Tic NoFth
Sea to Sicily. They used to ascend the
Seine in their boats, and plumber and
burn tile fowls and hamlets along the
river. On the occasion Of their first
visit. they entered Paris without oppo-
sition, and were bought of by Charles
the Bold for n sum of money. They
made their appearance again in soS
and s57, and busted themselves largely
In the work of destruction, and In a
subsequent incursion they burned the
city. Admonished by these disastrous
events, Charles took measures to pre-
vent their recurrence, and fortified the
bridges and built castles OH the banks
of the Seine, so that when the Nor
mans reappeared in sS5 they were
obliged to begin operations by a siege,
which lasted thirteen months, and was
marked by eight distinct attempts to
carry the place by assault. The be-
siegers were eventually bought of with
a large sum of money in SS7. In the
| latter part Of the tenth century (9ST
the German Emperor, Ohio H., at wal
with L.othaire, set fire to a portion Of
the suburbs of Paris, and ravaged the
surrounding country. Along interval
elapsed before the French capital was
again exposed to the assaults Of n In
vading foe, who, in 1855, in the person
Of Charles, King Of Navarro, block
AIDED Paris, and subjected Its inhabit-
ants to all the horrors of famine. Ed
ward ILL.,, of England. not long after
laid siege to 1t, and only abandoned
his attempts in this way after he had
laid waste the adjoining districts.
Again, in 1920, another English King,
Henry V, was the besieger and captor
of the city. ; but it was doomed to even
. still more ~protricted distress and suf-
ferings when the French. under Charles
VII, in 1929. took measures for its re-
covery. An army, ut tho head OF
which was the celebrated Joan Of Arc.
made a desperate assault of four hours
duration between the gates Of st.
Honore and st. Denis, but without Sue
cess. The wars Of the League, which
inflicted such severe wounds OIL France
generally, caused many disasters to
Paris. Chief among them was the
siege, beginning in 1869, to which 1t
was subjected by Henry ", Of Ma
varre, in his efforts to subdue the
L.caguers, who held the city. The in
habitants were soon reduced to the
greatest straits for want of food
Famine, with its usual attendant dis
ease, is in its most appalling and fatal
forms, caused, in twelve months,
$4,000 deaths, in a population Of 200
900. Henry allowed 5000 Of the very
I poorest class to leave the city. The
siege lasted four years and six months,
with the exception of n short period,
in which it was raised by the Spanish
army, under the Duke Of Parma, who
supplied the city with provisions, and
from that date the deplorable condi-
ton Of the Parisians was somewhat
! abated. France, in the many wars
carried on for the next two centuries,
always appears as an invader OF the
different countries which bordered OH
her W territory, and Paris was of
course unmolested by a foreign enemy.
The wars of the Republic and Of the
Empire led to the military occupation
by the French armies, IN successive
periods, Of most of the capitals Of Eu-
rope ; but in 1914 the ebb tide Of for
tune brought with it also pursuing
enemies, whose mighty hosts were too
powerful 20 be batlcd by the marvel
lous energy. strategic skill and daring
attacks of Napoleon, with the small
remains of his grand army and youth
full conscripts. The defense Of the
capital, which had no line Of
regular Notifications, was left to an
army OF $4,000 men, under Mar
mont. Mortier and Campans, occupying
the fortified heights near Paris in a
semicircic, from Clarendon and No
gent OH the Marine, to Neuilly OH the
Seine. The investing forces, Prussian
and Austrian, mustered 10000 men.
\ decisive battle was fought OH the
Both March, 1914, In which the allies
were victorious, but Mt the cost Of 1000
men, killed and wounded, while the
loss of the French was 1000, and the
city surrendered at discretion on the
Slst March, In the following year, after
the battle OF Waterloo, the allied troops
of England and Prussia marched
rapidly OH Paris, the defense Of which
had been entrusted to Davoust, with
M army Of 10000 men. An attack
could not well be made, rs formerly,
from the north and east, because the
nights and villages were fortified and
we'll supplied with artillery but, TAX
ing into consideration the exposure Of
the city in other directions, and the
number of the beseigcrs, it was deter
mined almost unanimously, by a coun-
Gil of war, that it was untenable. After
one unsuccessful effort the surrender
Of Paris was resolved on, and a capitu-
lation was concluded ut st. Cloud, |
July Sd, 1915. After all interval Of
fifty-five years, between that date aud
the present, the Prussians are again
under the walls OF Paris and 1t is
now for the near future to reveal what
resistance this great city, now strongly
fortified and fully garrisoned, will
make to IN enemy flushed with re-
pcated victories and in command of
half Il million of men, and the most
destructive missiles and engines of all
kinds.
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