New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-03-19

the city knew of So
MacMahons defeat
al Sedan, and Eu- e. ca ~ Esx $50 - -
genie de Montijo, 6 ~ & - y z
the brave Empress - -
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evening of the Sat -
urdav. first from the
War Office where II
had been whispered +
by the few; later
from the streets, where the many had told
II in awed words and groups apart Undoubt-
edlv there had been a terrible disaster. Some
said that MacMahon was in full retreat; others
that the Emperor had been present at the
battle but had escaped across the German frontier
None was IN full possession of the graver intelli-
gence that a whole army had been surrounded and
made captive, and that the Emperor Napoleon even
then was on his way TO a German prison. When
these more momentOus truths leaked out it
natural, perhaps, that the meaning OF them should
not be realized Immediately. Paris gathered upon
the boulevards, went IN haste to the chamber
where the Corps LcgisI1ti sat; but 1t spoke of its
rulers and not of its armies. If a few voices
shouted @ D6chfdnce-Vi5e la RepubIiq4e!" laughter
answered them, and even counter cries OF . Vl1e
TEmpcreupt" The hour not yet for the
thanders of the tempest-these were but the omens
OF storm
Napoleon a prisoner; MacMahon's army no more!
The ensuing night of summer at her zenith and
clear skies and soft breezes caught up these whispers
as the hours went and breathed upon them
chord OF weird music the vale OF dynasty and the
doom Of an Empire. Few in the city would think
Of sleep or OF anything but the desire to and
hear all that happened in the busy Streets where the
cafes remained open until dawn, and the messengers
informed that Parliament still sitting sunrise.
Even the ti1nd made bold to join other of
the great armies OF citizens which patroed the
boulevards and roared defiance at the Tuieries.
"D5chfance-Fise la RcPubliqHc!"
The seriezt dc zILe did forbid these reasonable
cries Hordes from Belleville, ferocious women and
men whose bloodshot eyes bnked at the day,
came out like ravening wolves IN search OF prey,
and pressed on across the river Excited politicians
stood upon chairs by the cafe doors and denounced
the fallen Emperor. No talk of Sedan or
Strasburg The Republic would save France.
Yonder. at the Tuileries, they might find the
stricken Empress and accuse her.
The wiser shook their heads and asked if her
majesty had left Paris already; for said they, if
she had not, these assassns certainly would muir
der her.
Many asked the question, but none with
interested earnestness than Edmund Orlopp, the
young English doctor. whose name already was
known IN Paris as the friend of France and her
people He asked 1t on the eve of Sunday when
they told him that the Emperor had been taken;
he asked II at midnight when he marched with the
assassins from Beleville. westward, upon the
Tuileries: he asked it when the Corps LeeisIatT
rose at dawn he asked II at midday on the Sabbath
when a wild mob besieged the chamber and the
deputies fed headIong
What did this horde of petticoats and bouses
mean TO do? Already they had waved their tn
colors and their babies in the face Of the astounded
President Schneider and sent him TO the right