300 ORIGIN OF THE WAR OF 1853 chap, wanted for recording the whole quantity of the " v slaughter.* Total loss of In the army which did these things, the whole the army in _ • killed. number of killed was twenty-five."]* XIII. Effect of Of all men dwelling in cities the people of Paris the massacre . ... T , . upon the are perhnps the most warlike. Less almost than ] people of Paris any other Europeans are they accustomed to over- value the lives of themselves and their fellow- citizens. With them the joy of the fight has power to overcome fear and grief, and they had been used to great street-battles ; but they had not been used of late to witness the slaughter of people unarmed and helpless. At the sight of what was done on that 4th of December the great city was struck down as though by a plague. A keen- eyed Englishman, who chanced to come upon some of the people retreating from these scenes of slaughter, declared that their countenances were of a strange livid hue which he had never before seen. This was because he had never before seen the faces of men coming straight from the witness- ing of a massacre. They say that the shock of being within sight and hearing the shrieks broke down the nervous strength of many a brave though
- The number of regiments operating against Paris was be-
tween thirty and forty, and of these about twenty belonged to the divisions which were actively employed in the work. t Including all officers and soldiers killed from the 3d to the (5th of December. The official return, 'Monitenr,' p. 3062.
