The New York herald., 1871-08-22

sabie yard, fragrant with the odor OF Things which
one would naturally exDect 70 hnd In stable yard.
Neither N. Deaf0sse nor his subjects seemed 10 in
terest the good people Of Jersey very much. There
were not over twenty-five persons present ana
strongly suspect that the most OF them the lecturer
included, were refugees from the wrath OF M.
Theirs.
standing near the speakers stand aud tapped him
on the shoulder lie turned around with sudden
start and found myself face 10 lace with
GENERAL BERGERET.
the most violent and desperate man Of the whole
Paris Commune.
He IL little changed The last time saw him was
on the 23d OF May In the Tuileries, where he had
just taken up his quarters in the old apartments OF
OF the Empress to suit W ner amazingly.
m as ns three s,eas
wneD left him, about SIX O'Clock In the evening,
was still sheilinR with might and main the Champs
Elysees. wnle dense columns OF black smoke were
rolling out Of the Treasury building on one side and
out OF the Legion OF Honor on the oiner. mad not
through that storm of battle and nre-after having
been tracked and hunted down for weeks, the
voe e so" %or s Wn ms %
very little the worse Tor 1t al He very glad TO
see me- as Win the exception Of Andrieux,
had seen Of all those he mad known In PARIS. We
adjourned to neignDoring OGS, and there until the
WEE SMALL HOURS
kept him up telling me the history OF the events
which followed after had taken leave OF him and
the story OF his escape His story, which l give as
nearly as possible IN his own words, runs about as
follows
Monday evening, when you left me, thought the
position stlll good, and believed that by turning
movement operated from Montmartre we should be
able TO drive back the enemy and perhaps catch
nre pretty much all that night and during the early
part OF the next day upon the Trocadero and the
Of arc them ae ao1 am sss
Champs Elysees utterly impossible, although they
attempted c II several tines supposed q course,
tire, would do the same from his side and that the
enemy would ind 1t impossible to advance between
ut about hve O'Clock that the barricade in the BOu
levard Malshebes had been taken and that they
were advancing In the direction OF the Place ven-
dome with the Int nton OF turning men
How did yon get this newsf" asked.
"From the Hotel de Vile, with an order
TO BURN THE TUILERIEs,
which order Immediately put into execution"
HGw da about @ nuesa gsa m IN o
with a tram OF powder. This was about seven
O'Clock In the evening but the flames did not break
out until about ten.n
did you use any petroleum IL"
sar9. You may easily imagine that In a palace like
the TuiIerles there was enough cOmbustible matter
TO make 1t burn without putting ourselves to the
Jt,t--n'est &c pas then established my headquar-
ters in the Louvre, where passed night such as
hope to never pass again. The Dattle was raging
all around; but 1t only the Versailles troops
! had TO light, but my own men. had received
NO ORDERS 10 BURN THE LOUVRE,
and would not have done so II had. But my men,
who were in a state Of frenzy, were determined to
burn it, and when ordered them to desist they in-
stantIy set upon me as traitor and threatened to
shoot me- ] expOstulated with them, ] begged
them, threatened them, argued with them; but the
troi1,e Gu es u,. iacltel Fusutez.ie rlsUez-le"
the cry and for three hours or more fifty sixty of
them had their guns levelled OF me all the time But
WAS MAD WITH DESPAIR,
and would not have cared, think If they had shot
me ran along the lines knocked up their guns,
with rage. At last two OF my officers who had
seconded my ef0rts oil the while told me 1t would
be impossible to restrain them longer, and that we
might as well give 1t up. determined to make
one more effort, and mounting upon caisson
called them around me and made them speech
l told Them they dld not know What they were
doing that the men who painted those pictures,
VINO carved those statues, were poor wOrkmcn like
li~lng-and that it was not right to destroy their
works. works which were so beautiful that
works that could never be repaced that these
workmen wound have Deen In despair II they could
have thought that one day other workmen IKE
lions which would otherwise have lived for ages.
told them they would be worse than the Versail-
workingman than Theirs himself. I'nis considera-
tion staggered them. "Aais IL .ratson," they
Tant tout de sere, ao,s ilJau booe,." and SO, at
three O'Clock Wednesday morning, lay down for
moments rest. feeling that
TuE LOUVRE WAS SAFE"
"YOu mean TO say you saved the LOuvre'" asked
"Certainly, - he continued, '"Thers knowsi IT, One
or two OF his mOuchards were among my men, 1t
seems, and gave very accurate report OF what oc.
when ne heard that 1t was who saved the Louvre
he remarked that he hoped had been killed IN the
strained to pardon me-"
"Bnt why should you wish to save the Louvre and
Because" he replied, II am as great lover OF
art as anybody, and should have been sorry TO see
was nest or kings and emperOrs-a hole where
for centuries the hard-earned money wrung from
sanandered in luxury and dissipation and riot and
debauchery by parcel OF disgusting rotten belied
brutes calling themselves kings. 1 determined to
THE ACCURsED SPOT
and did 1t. wednesday the fight continued In the
Rue de tivoli with unabated vigOr; Dur many OF my
men had been killed or wounded, many more had
deserted, ana was obliged 10 fall back from the
Louvre IN the evening and take up my head quarters
the TOur de st. jacques IN the Rne de RivOli.
II was here that saw Deescluze for the last time.
KISSED AND EMBRACED NE
at parting, saying he would never see me again, and
] felt that it but too true; that probably neither
despair ana s rage to Of give more than a. hurried a
thought to tnat, and fought on, never once con.
siderlng or caring how 1t would end All day We'd
the Hotel de Vile or TO the headquarters beyond it
for relnforcements, which never came. The answer
always was-fght on; reinforcements are coming.
did not even know that Monimartre was taken,
and If could have raised 1000 men follow me /
" woud have marched 10 the Porte Maillot or done
any other desperate thing that might have occurred
10 me-"
TIE CAPTURE OF BoNTMARTRE
when did YOU hear Of the capture OF Mont
martre2" asked.
''NoI until Thursday morning, although, as have
since learned, IL was surrendered bv
THAT TRAITOR LACECiLA
on ruesday nighi.n
told him thought 1t was taken Monday night
"That may be-" he replied. They kept lie In
ignorance Of the real state of aairs at the Hotel
Niile and II was only from one OF my own officers
VINO heard 1t dOn't know how-that ! rot the
news. did not tell my men even then, but Kept
them at IL by every means in my power until Thurs
day afternoon, when
HAD TWO OFFICERS AND FIVE OR SIX MEN LEFT.
The greater part OF them had deserted Wednesday
night and the next morning they kept slipping OF
one by one until only had the live or six speak
OF around me. They were oil brave fellows and
said they would stay by me TO the last. The last
barricade between the Louvre and the Tour ST.
jacques had been already abandoned, the last three
or four couriers had sent for relnforcements had
not returned, and was on the point OF giving the
order 10 retire, when
FEW RED LEGS
appeared 10 the Rue de Rivoli, between us
and the Hotel de vile, ana we knew we
were surrounded. gave the order saure qtt d. ut
and dashed into house on the other side Of the
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