Chapter XXIII

The siege -- The food-supply of Paris -- How and what the
Parisians eat and drink -- Bread, meat, and wine -- Alcoholism --
The waste among the London poor -- The French take a lesson from
the alien -- The Irish at La Villette -- A whisper of the horses
being doomed -- M. Gagne -- The various attempts to introduce
horseflesh -- The journals deliver their opinions -- The supply
of horseflesh as it stood in '70 -- The Academie des Sciences --
Gelatine -- Kitchen gardens on the balcony -- M. Lockroy's
experiment -- M. Pierre Joigneux and the Englishman -- If
cabbages, why not mushrooms? -- There is still a kitchen garden
left -- Cream cheese from the moon, to be fetched by Gambetta --
His departure in a balloon -- Nadar and Napoleon III. --
Carrier-pigeons -- An aerial telegraph -- Offers to cross the
Prussian lines -- The theatres -- A performance at the Cirque
National -- "Le Roi s'amuse," at the Theatre de Montmartre -- A
dejeuner at Durand's -- Weber and Beethoven -- Long winter nights
without fuel or gas -- The price of provisions -- The Parisian's
good-humour -- His wit -- The greed of the shopkeeper -- Culinary
literature -- More's "Utopia" -- An ex-lieutenant of the Foreign
Legion -- He gives us a breakfast -- He delivers a lecture on
food -- Joseph, his servant -- Milk -- The slender resources of
the poor -- I interview an employe of the State Pawnshop --
Statistics -- Hidden provisions -- Bread -- Prices of provisions
-- New Year's Day, and New Year's dinners -- The bombardment --
No more bread -- The end of the siege 429

CHAPTER XXIV.

Some men of the Commune -- Cluseret -- His opinion of Rossel --
His opinion of Bergeret -- What Cluseret was fighting for --
Thiers and Abraham Lincoln -- Raoul Rigault on horseback --
Theophile Ferre -- Ferre and Gil-Peres, the actor -- The comic
men of the Commune -- Gambon -- Jourde, one of the most valuable
of the lot -- His financial abilities -- His endeavours to save
-- Jourde at Godillot's -- Colonel Maxime Lisbonne -- The
Editor's recollections of him -- General Dombrowski and General
la Cecilia -- A soiree at the Tuileries -- A gala-performance at
the Opera Comique -- The death-knell of the Commune 462

AN ENGLISHMAN IN PARIS.