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The Government troops have not yet occupied Vanves; they are pressing upon Billancourt and La Marette.
He replied that this was impossible, as no civilian was allowed to pass through the gate. Things began to look uncomfortable. The zealot talked of shooting me, as a simple and expeditious mode of solving the question. To this I objected, and so at length it was agreed that I should be marched off to the fort of Vanves.
The Fort of Vanves is still occupied by the Insurgents, but Moulin de Pierres and Châtillon cover it with shells. By means of cannon shots the troops of Versailles have demolished the houses in the village of Vanves, as they concealed and covered the postern of the Fort.
So scathing was the indictment, that he was at once arrested, but managed to make his escape. The fire from the batteries on the assailants' right, was now concentrated upon Vanves, which was evacuated by the insurgents two days later.
Administrator of the Grand Hotel. The Insurgents have evacuated all their positions between Fort Vanves and the enceinte. The only gunboats now beneath the Viaduct at the Point du Jour are mere wrecks, and their guns have completely disappeared. The Insurgents' battery on a bastion between Vaugirard and Montrouge has been firing frequently to-day. One of its shells came as far as Bas Meudon.
Of the 60 pieces of cannon left in the Fort, the greater number had been rendered useless by the fire of the troops. It is believed that the garrison escaped by a subterranean passage communicating between Forts Vanves and Montrouge. Every commander of an Army Corps will henceforward have the command of an Arrondissement, and will be answerable for the defensive measures undertaken in his zone.
The fall of the leaves enables us to distinguish clearly the earthworks and the redoubts which the Prussians have thrown up. I am not a military man, but my civilian mind cannot comprehend why Vanves and Montrouge do not destroy with their fire the houses occupied on the plateau of Chatillon by the Prussians. I asked an officer, who was standing before Vanves, why they did not.
The guns of Vanves joined in the combat, their fire being directed towards the plateau of Chatillon, which was held by the troops. Round Issy a force of the National Guard was assembled, but the main body was in the deep valley between the forts and Meudon, and on the slopes nearly up to the chateau; the rattle of musketry here was continuous, a light smoke drifting up through the trees.
On the south of Paris, between the Seine and Meudon, are first a line of forts, then a line of redoubts, except where Chatillon cuts in close by the Fort of Vanves. Beyond this line of redoubts is a plain, that slopes down towards the villages of L'Hay, Chevilly, Thiais, and Choisy-le-Roi, which is situated on the Seine about five miles from Paris.
On Friday night, while those who formerly were called les maitres des basses oeuvres* were erecting the scaffold at the Barriere de Fontainebleau, the rapporteur of the court-martial, accompanied by the clerk of the court, repaired to the Fort of Vanves. * The executioner in France is officially styled l'executeur des hautes-oeuvres. Daix and Lahr, who were to die, were sleeping.
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