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Paris falls to Versaillists in morning fighting
The paper describes two o clocks occupation of La Muette and a commanded push toward Passy and Trocadéro. Versaillists advance along Boulevard Haussmann by 9 30 p m with heavy musketry fire. Communists retreat amid barricades as gendarmes and sailors lead the assault. By noon the lines stretch from the Madeleine to Concorde and toward Montmartre, with ongoing shelling and demoralised defenders erecting new barricades. In the National Assembly Thiers proclaims triumph of liberty and order. plans to punish crime and restore sovereignty.
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Daily News
Paris
Versaillista
Boulevard Haussmann
Rue de Lafayette
Pepiniere
Rus de Lafayette
Montmartre
Trocadero
Versailles
Place de l’Europe
Madeleine
Place de la Concorde
Spe
Versaillists
Pont de la Concorde
Ecole Militaire
Theoulevard Des Capucines
Rue de la Paix
National Assembly
M. Thiers
Douai
Porte de Bt. Jud
Ladmirault
Passy
Anteuil
Arc de Triomphe
Vincy
Point du Jour
Seine
Savres
Cissy
Dé Fauburg St. Germain
Mont Parnassé
Clinchamps
France
M. Jules Simon
Louis XVI
M. Cochery
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