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[Monsigneur Darboys the Archbishop of Paris, Abbe Duguerry, Judge Bonjean and three Jesuits led out into La Roquette courtyard]

Nom de dieu, he must be wearing armour! [Firing squad member, after first volley fails to kill archbishop. The second succeeds]

The soldiers knocked the young men down with the butt-end of their rifles and dispatched them with a pistol placed in their ears [Dr Powell]

The gates of the barracks closed behind them. There was a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth rrarrra of murder. [Goncourt]

A friend who brought news showed us the soles of his shoes, soaked in blood. [Reclus]

They’re carrying the corpses by cart, throwing them into ditches, coveringwith lime; others doused in petrol and burned. [Reclus]

With the help of some firemen from Chartres we managed to save all the books, the first two rooms of the library and the archives. [Rousse]

The Buttes-Chaumont has fallen.

Under a sky heavy with rain, the blasts of winds carrying the screams of the mitrailleuses. [Reclus]

Paris appears a great ship in distress, firing off its last maroons. [Daudet, from fifteen miles outside the city]

The last defenders of Paris have fallen back on Pere-Lachaise cemetery.

After hand-to-hand combat, the last communards surrender near Balzac’s tomb and are slaughtered against a wall at the back of the cemetery.

Some of the prisoners are bleeding, their ears torn off, their faces and necks gashed as though by the claws of wild animals.

The papers are awful. They do nothing but preach reprisals, vengeance and assassinations. Pour Paris. [Gromier]

We saw a convoy of ten or twelve omnibuses, full of human remains. [Reclus]

A flock of sheep appeared, from who knows where, trotted down the rue Julien-Lacroix, disappeared then reappeared at a gallop. [Robida]

The soldiers passed, two a breast on each pavement, superb, an officer at their head, revolver and sabre in hand. [Robida]

There are dead men underneath the newly laid roads. [Rev Gibson]

Two cavalrymen arrived, attached tethers to the man struggling to keep up, and galloped. He was dragged, a mass of bleeding flesh. [Daudet]

The laws of war are mild and Christian compared with the inhuman law of revenge practiced by the Versaillais troops. [The Times]