The Insurrection in Paris Author:Davy Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MAY 9. — AND 10th. Forts Montrouge and Vanves have been reduced to silence by a battery of mitrailleuses established on a parapet of Issy, which picks off Fed... more »eral artillerymen when they show themselves. Seven guns on bastions 72, 73, and 74 have been dismounted by the new battery of Montretout and the bastions silenced. Many prisoners are said to have been taken at Issy yesterday. The National Guards of Vaugirard and the Pantheon decline to march , barely a third of their numbers having answered the call. The Vendome Column is definitively to fall on Friday. The Lycee , on the high ground behind Issy , is being hurriedly formed into a fortress mounted with guns, earthworks connecting it with Vanves. Three shells per second are said to have fallen on Auteuil this morning. Nineteen battalions were reviewed yesterday by Colonel Rossel in the Place de la Concorde. Rossel continues to command in spite of his resignation yesterday, which is attributed to a quarrel with the Central Committee. The Committee of "Public Safety is still sitting. It is rumoured thai should he decline to withdrawhis resignation, the functions of the Ministry of "War would be absorbed by the Committee of Public Safety, who would attach to themselves an Assistant Military Commission , headed by Dombrowski. May 10th. The Committee of Public Safety, in consequence of the proclamation of M. Thiers , which was placarded in Paris , has issued a decree ordering the furniture and property of M. Thiers to be seized, and his house in the Place St. Georges to be immediately demolished. The Commune, in its sitting of yesterday, decided to bring Colonel Rossel before a court- martial. Delescluze has been appointed Delegate of War. Colonel Rossel was arrested yesterday and handed over to the ...« less