"The desire of appreciating de visu the results of a five month"s siege in a town of two million inhabitants, unexampled in the annals of humanity, made me leave London on the twentieth of March. Hardly landed in the Capital of France which I thought of finding tranquil and occupied in exercising its genius in repairing the disasters caused by the enemy, I heard with stupefaction that Paris, a prey to civil war, was under the blow of a fresh siege. " Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Insurrection in Paris (Dodo Press) (Englishman An Englishman)