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 "Considering further that the said notice, printed at Versailles, has been posted on the walls of Paris by order of the said Sieur Thiers;

"That in that document he declared that his army is not bombarding Paris, whilst each day women and children are victims of the fratricidal projectiles of the Versailles troops;

"That in it an appeal is made to treason in order to obtain an entrance into the city, he being sensible of the absolute impossibility of overcoming by arms the heroic population of Paris, decrees as follows:

"Art. 1.—The furniture and effects on the properties of Thiers shall be seized by the Administration of Domains;

"Art 2.—The house of Thiers, situated on Place George, shall be razed to the ground;

"Art. 3.—Citizen Fontaine, Delegate for the Domains, and L. Andrieu, for Public Service, are charged, each in so far as he is concerned, with the immediate execution of the present order.

"Arnaud. Eudes, Gambon, Ranvier,—Members of the Committee of Public Safety."

It has been seen that the Committee declared war to the Gregorian calendar and the French dictionary. As will be seen by the text of the decree, the word Saint was suppressed from the vocabulary. The Committee were bringing matters back to the peurile and absurd eccentricities of 1793.

M. Thiers' house was situated on Place Saint George. The only journal in Paris that supported the above decree was Rochefort's paper, the Mot d'Ordre, which contained the subjoined remarks:

"We publicly affirm that the decree of the Commune announcing that M. Thiers' hotel shall be immediately razed to the ground, is a necessary satisfaction given to