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Newspaper
Nonconformist
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Sep 14, 1870
Page
4
The passage notes departure of wealthy carriages, widespread uniforms in the streets, and water scarcity as Paris endures shell threat. Victor Hugo visits with grandchildren while the king of Prussia nears. Citizens mine houses, fear shells, and authorities plan to burn surrounding woods to deny cover.
A Paris dispatch reports last minute postponements for certain government officials departure to Tours and notes Thiers will depart for a mission to London then St. Petersburg and Vienna. Favorable and unfavorable telegrams discuss possible armistice terms, Prussian war aims, and European mediation.
Reports detail the Emperor at Wilhelmshöhe with staff, the Empress fleeing the Tuileries via Louvre gallery, dashed to Deauville and onto the Gazelle bound for England. Sir John Burgoyne safeguarded the Empress aboard the Gazelle, then by rail to Hastings to join the Prince Imperial. English ports, travel by Ryde and Portsmouth, and arrivals of French nobles are noted along with a chorus of Paris papers on the correspondent’s dispatches.
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