French Republic. 27 June 1848

Extra Supplement
* Paris, 25 June. The insurrection continues. The fury with which
No. 27, 27 June 1848.
Neue Rheinische Zeitung.
both sides are fighting is indescribable. General Cavaignac is employing the most brutal means to suppress the uprising.
Among other things, he has shot to pieces the large clothing store
à la belle Jardinière on the Quai Napoléon, where 80 insurgents were fighting, which is unheard of in Paris. Indeed, he has had incendiary rockets
thrown upon the houses occupied by the insurgents in the same area. The bourgeoisie, in its death struggle, shows itself infinitely more brutal than kings ever were.

The bourgeoisie of the provinces proves that it knows what is at stake.
The National Guard of Amiens, Rouen, Le Havre and
other towns has arrived, partly with artillery, to defend “the cause
of order”.

The insurgents, estimated at 30,000 men by the Journal des Débats,
have been driven back into the eastern quarters of the town and are surrounded by 60–80,000
men of the bourgeois guard, the mobile guard and the regular army.

At 4 o’clock on Sunday afternoon nothing had yet been decided. The dictator Cavaignac has had the Assembly informed every moment for two days that he would be master of the insurrection in a few hours, but
he has so far not fulfilled his promise.

The end of the struggle is still not in sight. The immediate victory
of the people has become doubtful, but is far from lost. If the bourgeois
are momentarily victorious, then the class struggle will assume another,
frightful form.

National Assembly. Sitting of 25 June. (Morning.) President Sénard opens it at 10 o’clock with the declaration that the reports he has received are satisfactory. The night passed quietly;
in the quarters where the resistance was fiercest yesterday, order has been restored. The districts on the left bank of the Seine remained completely calm. The patrols that passed through the streets St. Jacques and
St. Marceau were not attacked. The barriers
of Fontainebleau, Italie and Enfer are occupied by regular troops and civic guard. A deputation of distinguished citizens of the 12th arrondissement,
the president continued, appeared before me early this morning to inform me
that little harmony prevails between the civic guard and the municipal authorities of this arrondissement
(12th arrondissement) and that they requested a remedy.
In agreement with General Cavaignac he immediately sent the three
deputies Vaulabelle, Fraussard and Deludre there
and they will reorganise the civic guard on the spot. As regards the larger half of Paris on the right bank, the president declared
that General Duvivier with his strong artillery park
and 14 battalions of the mobile guard was holding the Hôtel de Ville and that Lamoricière was keeping the faubourgs, Temple and Saint Antoine, in check. Discouragement prevails among the insurgents; many of the prisoners had stated that they had been dreadfully deceived (murmurs). The
news from the departments is favourable. Indignation is
general; everyone wants to hasten to the aid of the Paris citizenry, etc., etc.
Finally the president reads out a bill distributing 3 million
francs as alms among the 14 arrondissements of the department of the Seine,
which the Assembly adopts.

The sitting is suspended until midday.

At 12 o’clock one of the quaestors invites the deputies from Le Havre and
Yvetot etc. to appear in the forecourt to pass in review their
native civic corps which have arrived in Paris. This
takes place amid calls of: Long live the Republic. At 1 o’clock the
president makes a new report to the Assembly. The left bank of the Seine is
quiet. On the right bank the insurrection is losing fresh
ground with every hour. The barricades in Rue St. Antoine have been taken.
(Bravo.) Arago assures the Assembly that the postal service is operating regularly (the foreign representatives may certify this). Flocon declares that the city possesses 15,000,000 kilogrammes of flour and is thus
provisioned for a month. (Curious impression.) He demands, however, a
delay for the bills of exchange falling due on the 23rd, 24th and 25th June. The Assembly fixes the due date for the 28th inst. The sitting is
again adjourned.

The insurrection still holds a wide field. Meanwhile, the regular troops and
out-of-town civic guards are surrounding it according to Cavaignac’s plan. (Up to four o’clock in the afternoon.)

We shall give the conclusion of the sitting of the National Assembly of the 24th, as well as a
detailed description of the struggle, tomorrow.