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Protot; Puget; Pillot; Pyat (Felix); Philippe; Parent (Ulysse), démissionnaire; Parisot; Pottier; Pindy.

Ranc, démissionnaire; Ranvier; Rogeard, a refusé; Rochard, démissionnaire; Régère; Robinet, démissionnaire; Rossel, en fuite; Rigault (Raoul); Rastoul.

Serrailler; Sicard.

Tirard, démissionnaire; Tridon; Theisz; Trinquet.

Urbin.

Vaillant; Verdure; Varlin; Vallès (Jules); Vermorel; Vésinier; Viard.

These individuals formed the Commune, which was only a new name for the Central Committee, whose members, instead of retiring into private life, as was inferred from their official announcement the day before the election, evidently intended to stay where they were. On the Place Vendome the precautions taken were considerably more minute and searching than previously, and an immense barricade was erected at the southern end, furnished with pieces of cannon pointed against the Rue Castiglione, and the Rue St. Honore, both to the east and west.

Delescluze, one of those few who formed part of a sort of secret committee for the Central Committee, was elected in several arrondissements. He wrote to the President of the National Assembly resigning his seat in that body, where he declared he had only remained to impeach the dictators of the 4th of September. He added that being unwilling to associate himself with the insanities and passions of the Chamber, and having been returned by several arrondissements of Paris to the Commune, he had decided upon giving the preference to the latter delegation.

The announcement of the vote for the Commune was made at the Hotel de Ville on the 28th with considerable ceremony. The gate below the clock-tower was hung with red, blue, and green drapery, whilst the statue of Henry IV