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3: The Defender;
| of the
I Barricade
:j: A Story of the Paris
J* Commune
IT
X By WILLARD BLAKEMAN
•r
The human race lives on the edge of
the chasm of war. All modern ware,
civilized people having now reached a
stage where war is dreaded, may be
referred to as stupidity. One of the
most stupid contests within the last
half century was the uprising of the
Paris commune at the close of the
Franco-Prussian war la 1871. If ever
a country needed peace in which to re
cover from its wounds Frauce did at
that time. And yet a number of im
practicable idealists, led by villains,
for a time paralyzed the government
by lire and sword. And when they had
succeeded in acquiring the power to
carry out their ideas their whole struc
ture fell to the ground because these
ideas were Utopian.
The singular feaure of all this Is th®
sincerity and devotion to a cause under
which there was no foundation. That
the leaders were unscrupulous, as well
as idealists, goes without saying. But
mauy of the revolutionists undoubtedly
fought and died, actuated by pure mo
tives.
U U Ullfe LUC pvuvu WWU vuw vv»— |
mnuists held Paris by means of barri
cades erected upon the streets through
which the national troops were attack
ing theui, Captain Pierre Le Moyne
Avas ordered to take his company into
a narrow street and demolish a barri
cade, behind which a party of com
munists were entrenched. There was
but little room in which an attacking
force could operate, the street being
not over thirty feet wide. Captain Le
Moyne was obliged to march his men
down the narrow lane, the houses of
which rose on either side to a height
greater than the width of the street.
The distance from the beginning of the
street to the barricade was about 1,000
feet. From the windows and the roofs
of the houses it was to be expected
that the advancing troops would be
picked off by the communists.
Many a soldier, when he received the
order to march into the death trap or
heard tlie reverberation between the
houses of the first tap of the drum
which announced it, felt that there
was little ehauce of his ever getting
out alive. Each stroke on the drum
head sounded sharp and loud and om
inous. As the little column moved on
ward there was a crack from a win
dow, a faint cloud of smoke, and one
of the men fell on the pavement. An
other crack from a roof on the oppo
site side of the street and another
nmn plunged forward on his face.
"At this rate," thought Captain I*
Moyne, "by the time we reach the bar
ricade there will be not enough of us
left to take it."
"Tap-tap! Tap-tap-tap!" came the
drumbeats, while at short intervals a
crack of a weapon here and there add
ed to their viciousness.
Rut as the men advanced the shots
came fewer. When one-half the dis
tance had been covered, where there
had been a dozen shots a minute there
was now only a straggling Are, and the
marksmanship was wild.
"Either they are breaking down,"
said the captain, "or they have concen
trated all their force at the barricade."
On marched the troops, reduced by a
Qfth of their number, till, turning a
bend in the street, they came in sight
of the barricade. The firing from the
windows ceased entirely. The silence,
broken only by the sharply reverberat
ing drum taps, was more ominous than
if the drums had been deadened by a j
fusillade. The pile of cobblestones
which floated the blood red flag of the
commune looked ugly—more ugly be
cause the weapons behind it aimed
down the narrow street, were invisible.
Captain Le Moyne halted his men for
the purpose of taking in the situation,
lie cast quick glauces at the upper
stories and roofs of the houses on each |
side. No one was in sight nor was a
single shot fired.
"They are reserving their Are," said
| the captain. "We shall get it from the
windows when we charge the works." !
lie strained his eyes in an endeavor
to get sight of something stirring with- |
in. Not even the flag moved, for there
was no wind.
Silence before the storm is more de
pressing thati after It breaks. Men
standing waiting for a fight to open
are more unreliable than in the heat of
battle. Le Moyne's soldiers seemed
| restless. There was no reason for
I them to move till they received an or
I der to advance, yet they changed posi
tion constantly, casting the while
I glances at the houses above them and
I tlie barricade.
Though they expected a hailstorm of
bullets, when the order "Forward" was
given they felt relieved. Suspense at
least was ended. Again came the
sharp tap of the drum as the little col
umn moved on without opposition. Ev
idently tlie communists were reserving
their "fire till the last minute. When
within a hundred yards of the barri
| cade Captain Le Moyne halted his men
again and called on the enemy to sur
| render. His demand was answered b.v
I a single shot.
Expecting this to be a signal for a
I volley, the captain quickly deployed
his men so far as the narrow street
would permit and gave the order to
lire. A volley of bullets rained upon
the stones composing the barricade.
| There was no response.
1 Le Moyn# was puzzled.
Drawing up his men in two lines, the
one behind the other, he ordered them
to fix bayonets and advance. A third
of the distance was covered, but no
volley; another third, with the same
result Captain Le Moyne, who was In
advance of his men, went to the barri
cade, climbed it and looked down on
the other side.
There was but one living being there,
and that was a woman. She had been
wounded by a shot from the troops
and lay bleeding on the pavement.
Most of the women who fought with
the commune were hags. This woman
was not more than twenty years old.
She looked up at Le Moyne with a pair
of large dark eyes. They expressed a
spirit of martyrdom.
It was all plain to Le Moyne. The
commune was breaking down. The
barricade had been deserted except by
this Maid of Orleans, wbo constituted
herself its sole defender.
Le Moyne turned, called on a lieuten
ant to bring the men to a rest, then
went down the barricade to the wo
man.
"Are you badly wounded?" he asked.
"No; I have a broken leg."
"Who are you?"
"Elise Fourchet"
"What are you doing here alone be
nlnd this barricade?"
"I could not get the men to stay.
They heard that our defenses are bro
ken down in other parts, and they
dared not remain."
"And you?"
"I would not desert."
By this time the soldiers had climbed
the barricade and were waving the
tricolor of France from its crest Le
Moyne called upon them to carry its
defender into a house beside it, going
with them as they did so. There was
only one person besides the captain
and his men, an old woman, who min
istered to the wounded girl. A surgeon
accompanied the soldiers, and he was
called in to set and bandage the bro
ken limb.
Had the damage done by the com
mune ended with its loss of control
perhaps the wholesale slaughter of its
votaries which followed would not
have taken place. When its leaders
found that they were beaten, adopting
the motto of rule or ruin, since they
could not rule they resolved to ruin.
They murdered the archbishop of Paris
and other distinguished persons whom
they held an hostages. Not content
with this, they undertook to destroy
the city, Paris was then full of beau
tiful buildings. Many of these were
destroyed, including the most interest
ing, historically considered, the palace
of the Tuileries, the ancient abode of
the kings of France.
It was these acts of vandalism that
led the government to get rid, so far as
possible, of so dangerous a portion of
the population of Paris. The captured
communists were marched out to the
yards of the prisons in which they
were confined, stood up with their
faces to the walls and shot down by
scores. Doubtless many of these be
lieved that they were dying in a sacred
cause.
Captain Le Moyne could he have
foreseen these horrors would undoubt
edly have continued to save his pris
oner from the universal sacrifice,
though he hac> but little time, and
Elise Fourchet was not in a condition
to avail herself of a permitted flight.
The only thing the captain could do
for her was to leave her with the wo
man who was caring for her. He
marched his men away, but the na
tional troops were pouring into the
city, and when Mile. Fourchet was
found wounded and confessed that she
had received n bullet while defending
a barricade she was removed to a
prison.
If the communists received a trial
they were tried in large numbers to
gether. When Elise Fourchet was
brought before a judge for one of these
wholesale sentences, noticing she was
of a different class from most of the
others, he asked her why she had en
gaged in such nefarious work.
"I fought to build, not to destroy,"
was her reply. "I did not know that
we were led by bad men. One of our
leaders, Cluseret, fought with the
Union armies in the late war between
the states of North America, and I sup
posed that a man who had risked his
life in the cause of civil liberty must
be representing the same cause in
France." .
The Judge was touched by this ap
peal and remanded the prisoner to
prison for further evidence. But the
Parisians soon tired of the wholesale
slaughter of the coinmnuists, and Mile.
Fourchet was never again brought to
triaL In time, when all danger of a
recurrence of the outbreak had passed,
tho prison doors of all communists
who had not been executed were
thrown open, and among those who
walked out free was Elise Fourchet
She ever afterward had a horror of
the men who had led so many innocent
persons into crime. Not ail of them
were punished unless by their own
consciences. A few escaped, others per
ished in the bavoc they had made,
while others were banished from
«France. Probably no body of men ever
rset in motion a revolution that involv
ed so much ruin, not only of historic
treasures, but of persons they de
ceived. As Paris is France, their chief
devastation was in that city. Just be
fore its capture bands of men and wo
mem-such men and women as follow
ed Louis XVI. to the guillotine seventy
years before—went from one historic
edifice to another, applying petroleum
and to petroleum the torch. When the
ruin was completed Paris was a very
different city from what it had been
before. How that art treasure, the
Louvre, escaped will always remain a
wonder. While Elise Fourchet was
long remembered as one of the heroines
of the commune, she never afterward
affiliated with communists. And as
for the commune leaders, she detested
them.
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