Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-18

of truce. He started to run toward Due
atel, but the soldiers prevented him.
Don't go, Captain, it's decoy; they will
fire upon YOU" NJ. Treve did not hest
tate; he thought the signal was made in
good faith, doubtless because he desired
1t so passlonately.
Several men wished to accompany him,
but he forbade them and started alone
at full speed toward the draw bridge.
There was great excitment among the
soldiers, who prepared themselves to fire
In case the white flag concealed an am
buscade. Soon these two men, Ducatel
and Treve, SO simply heroic. were able to
talk to each other. across the ditch which
bordered the Notifications. "Paris is
yours" cried M. Ducatel; I" every thing
is deserted; bring in the troopsw Cap
ain Treve, who has seaman's legs-as
he has right to have-yentured upon
a beam of the draw bridge which had
fallen across the ditch. As he cautious
ly advanced he felt the beam tremble be-
meath him, and turning saw Sergeant
Jules Content, CT the Third Battalion of
the Ninety first, with his finger upon the
trigger of his gun, ready to defend or
avenge him. Captain Treve did not feel
that he had right to send back this de-
voted man who was marching so courage
ously into peril, and quietly kept on his
way. AS soon as he had crossed the
ditch he was joined by NJ. Ducatel. They
visited together bastions 65 and sc, the
military road, the neighboring posts and
the houses along the river. Every thing
was deserted. It seemed as though
pestilence had passed through the place.
When Captain Treve and Sergent Con
tant returned to the trench an engineer,
Captain GARNER, was already having a
bridge thrown across the ditch over
which the men might cross.
Such is the fact in all its simplicity.
It was of wonderful importance for the
deliverance of Paris, but it could not
have occurred if General Douay, precipi-
tating his attacks, pushing on his APP
proach with extreme energy, had not
brought his trenches to the very walls of
the place-that is, in full sight and with
in reach f the voice of NJ Ducatel. M.
Ducatel gave the signal; Captain Treve
saw 1t and the French army pro6ted by
the favorable occurance, thanks to the
troops of the Fourth Corps, which Gen
eral Douay had united at this point after
combats and marches vigorously man
aged. At about 1900 yards from the
gate Of St. Cloud, at the headquarters
the engineers, Captain Berson was sta
toned, having telegraph wire CORES
ponding with the head quarters OF the
Fourth Corps, stationed at Villenuve
l'Etang Captain Berson and Captain
Treye Immediately sent dispatches to
General Douay; the latter was not long
acting. With The help Of the telegram
wires which he held In his hands, in less
than ten minutes he gave all necessary
Instructions to the batteries of Montre-
fout and of Breteuil. He babe them
both stop firing, and ordering the
Gaudil Brigade, bivoucking near St.
Cloud, to cross the Seine and hurry
to the Point du-Jour Gate. He sent
Lieutenant Colonel Mallat, of the Thirty
seventh, commander of the trenches, an
order to put all the men of whom he
could dispose in motion to enter and stay
in the city. He then ordered the Fourth
Corps to march upon the Point du-J our
and the St. Cloud gates.
This done, he sent word to Marsha.
that he had forced the walls
and was going to maneuver in Paris it.
self An entrance was not to have been
attempted before Tuesday, May 23d.
General Douay then started himself, and
his horse, as you may suppose was in
foam when he reached St. Cloud. His
order had been punctually executed.
The Captain of Engineers, GARNER, had
been the first to pass the gate with two
companies Of the Thirty-seventh, squad
of sappers and some artillery men, carry
ing or dragging field mortars; Com
mander Louis, of the artillery, had
brought up a cannon; Lieutenant Colonel
Mallat, with the soldiers of the Thirty
seventh and Ninety-frst. massed them
selves so as to repulse any offensive re-
turn Of the Federals. During few mo-
mems there was little confusion: but
the Gaudil Brigade debouched by the
Avenue of St. Cloud, General Douay had
arrived, every thing was going we'll, and
it was safe to cry "The city is taken!"
If at this moment a division, or even
brigade preceded by regiment of cav
airy, had resolutely entered Paris Shy the
quays and bouleyards, which were totally
clear of barricades, with one bound and
without one shot being fired the Com
mune would have Deen strangled.' This
opinion is not mine only, but that of M.
Lissagaray, the most serious apologist of
the Commune. 1t is perfectly correct.
A rapid movement, had it been stratget-
ically possible, carried out on the evening
of May 21st, would have enabled the
French army to encamp that very night
in the Hotel de Vile and to have thrown
forward its advance guard as far as the
Place de la Bastile There is not chief
of the Commune WHO does not know it,
though not one of them has admitted this
fact. However, the gods did not will it
so to be-and Paris was burned!
Fashion Notes.