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Pène, Henri de,
285–6
Père Duchesne
,
260
,
304
Pétain, Marshal,
x
,
106
,
429
Petite Presse La
,
127
,
416
Picard, Ernest,
55
,
57
,
70
,
92
,
107
,
109
,
113–14
,
118–19
,
190
,
274
Pigeons, use of,
128–9
,
141
,
145
Pinet, warder,
410
Pissarro,
29
,
253
,
427
Plan Trochu, Le
,
see under
Trochu
Point-du-Jour,
324
,
347
,
363
Pouchet, Deputy Prefect,
117
Powell, Dr. O. C.,
304–5
,
320
,
358
,
361
,
367
,
371
,
381
,
389
,
404–7
Prévost-Paradol,
30
,
36
,
39–40
Prince, balloonist,
130
Private armies,
318
Protot, Minister of Justice,
353
Prussians, standard of Army,
40–41
; casulties,
44
,
105
,
234
,
244
; fortifications erected around Paris,
194–5
; living conditions as besiegers,
195
ff.; morale among,
201
; triumphal march through Paris,
261–4
; end of occupation by,
264
; escape of Communards sealed off by
408
Pyat, Félix,
28
,
55
,
89–93
,
97
,
107
,
109–11
,
119
,
132
,
238
,
256
,
259–60
,
297
,
301
,
303
,
332–3
,
339
,
342–3
,
400
,
425
,
432
Quinet, Edgar,
259
,
427
Rafinesque, Gaston,
286
Rafinesque, Gulielma,
165
,
247
,
263
,
358
Rafinesque, Jules,
286
,
322
,
347
,
352
,
414
,
421
Rampont, Minister of Posts,
84
,
123
,
301
,
305
Ranc, balloonist,
141
Ranvier, Mayor,
282
,
409–12
Rappel,-Le
,
39
,
279
Razoua,
237
Reclus, Elie and Elisée,
298
‘Reds’, trouble stirred up by,
90–101
,
107–20
,
138–9
,
223–4
.
See also
Commune
Régnault,
242
Reitlinger, Frédéric,
130
,
164
Renan,
214
Renault, General,
157
Renoir, Auguste,
19
,
29–30
,
116
,
253
,
356
,
358
,
427
,
432
Réveil, La
,
32
,
89
,
238
Rezonville,
49
Rigault, Raoul, aided by Renoir,
29–30
; demands post of Prefect of Police,
116–17
; as Police Chief,
304
; responsibility for final image of the Commune,
334
; character and appearance,
334–5
; violence and ruthlessness of,
335–6
,
395
; anticlericalism of,
336–9;
faith in Blanqui as leader,
338
; questioned about excesses,
342
; imposes summary trial,
353
; rescues Renoir,
356
; recommends destruction of Paris,
364
; death,
397
Robinson, G. T.,
106
,
122
Rochebrune, Colonel,
233
Rochefort, Henri de,
29
,
32
,
39
,
56
,
70–72
,
84
,
87
,
98
,
100
,
107
,
110
,
120
,
230
n.,
235
,
243
,
256
,
259
,
296
,
333–5
,
348–9
,
355
,
423–4
,
426
Rolier, balloonist,
144–5
Roncière le Noury, Admiral de la,
156
Roon, General von,
41
,
52
,
198
,
203
,
218
Roos,
179
Rossel, Louis,
295
,
318
,
365
; replaces Cluseret,
327
; early career,
328
; character,
329
; reorganizes Paris defences,
329–30
; attacked by Pyat,
333
,
339
,
342
; Fort Issy and,
339–41
,
342–3
; resigns as Minister of War,
341
; threatened with arrest,
343
; flight of,
343
,
344
; on Delescluze,
345
; trial and death,
423
Rouauh, Georges,
421
Rozicr, Pilâtre de,
121–2
Rueil,
310
Russell, Lady,
162
Russell, W. H.,
52
,
79
,
121
,
166
,
194
,
201–2
,
205
,
215
,
217–18
,
232
,
278
Russia,
73
,
164
.
See also
Alexander II, Tsar
Saarbrücken,
43
Sadowa,
36
,
162
St.-Denis,
67
,
103–4
,
156
,
173
Saint-Edmé,
251
St.-Privat
45–46
Saisset Admiral,
284
Sand, George,
21
,
23
,
39
Sapia,
97
,
100–1
,
237–8
Sarcey, Francisque,
183
Schmitz, General,
109
,
113–16
,
138
,
224
Schneider, Hortense,
9
Schneider, President of Corps Législatif,
55
Second Empire, extravagances and immorality of,
16–19
,
33
; grim reverse side of,
19–20
,
24–27
; materialism of,
22–23
; rebuilding of Paris during,
23–25
; unrest in,
26
ff.; end of,
58
Sedan,
49–54
,
58
,
61
,
75
,
77
,
137
,
162–3
,
200
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