“The column of prisoners halted in the Avenue Uhrich, and was drawn up, 
four or five deep, on the footway facing to the road. General Marquis de Galliffet 
and his staff dismounted and commenced an inspection from the left of the line. 
Waling down slowly and eyeing the ranks, the General stopped here and there, 
tapping a man on the shoulder or beckoning him out of the rear ranks. In most 
cases, without further parley, the individual thus selected was marched out into the 
centre of the road, where a small supplementary column was, thus, soon formed... 
It was evident that there was considerable room for error. A mounted officer 
pointed out to General Galliffet a man and woman for some particular offence. 
The woman, rushing out of the ranks, threw herself on her knees, and, with 
outstretched arms, protested her innocence in passionate terms. The general waited 
for a pause, and then with most impassible face and unmoved demeanour, said, 
‘Madame, I have visited every theatre in Paris, your acting will have no effect on 
me’ (‘ce n’est pas la peine de jouer la comédie’).... It was not a good thing on that 
day to be noticeably taller, dirtier, cleaner, older, or uglier than one’s neighbours. 
One individual in particular struck me as probably owing his speedy release from 
the ills of this world to his having a broken nose.... Over a hundred being thus 
chosen, a firing party told off, and the column resumed its march, leaving them 
behind. A few minutes afterwards a dropping fire, in our rear commenced, and 
continued for over a quarter of an hour. It was the execution of these 
summarily-convicted wretches.” — Paris Correspondent “Daily News,” June 8th. 

This Galliffet, “the kept man of his wife, so notorious for her 
shameless exhibitions at the orgies of the Second Empire,” went, 
during the war, by the name of the French “Ensign Pistol.” 

“The Temps, which is a careful journal, and not given to sensation, tells a 
dreadful story of people imperfectly shot and buried before life was extinct. A 
great number were buried in the square round St. Jacques-la-Boucherie; some of 
them very superficially. In the daytime the roar of the busy streets prevented any 
notice being taken; but in the stillness of the night the inhabitants of the houses in 
the neighbourhood were roused by distant moans, and in the morning a clenched 

hand was seen protruding through the soil. In consequence of this, exhumations 
were ordered to take place.... That many wounded have been buried alive I have 
not the slightest doubt. One case I can vouch for. When Brunel was shot with his 
mistress on the 24th ult. in the courtyard of a house in the Place Vendéme, the 
bodies lay there until the afternoon of the 27th. When the burial party came to 
remove the corpses, they found the woman living still, and took her to an 
ambulance. Though she had received four bullets she is now out of danger.” — 
Paris Correspondent “Evening Standard,” June 8th. 

II. 

The following letter appeared in The Times of June 13th: — 

“To the Editor of “The Times.’ 

“Sir,— 

“On June 6, 1871, M. Jules Favre issued a circular to all the 
European Powers, calling upon them to hunt down the Interna- 
tional Working-Men’s Association. A few remarks will suffice to 
characterize that document. 

“In the very preamble of our statutes it is stated that the 
International was founded ‘September 28, 1864, at a public 
meeting held at St. Martin’s Hall, Long Acre, London’. For 
purposes of his own Jules Favre puts back the date of its origin 
behind 1862. 

“In order to explain our principles, he professes to quote ‘their 
(the International’s) sheet of the 25th of March, 1869.’ And then 
what does he quote? The sheet of a society which is not the 
International. This sort of manoeuvre he already recurred to 
when, still a comparatively young lawyer, he had to defend the 
National newspaper, prosecuted for libel by Cabet. Then he 
pretended to read extracts from Cabet’s pamphlets while reading 
interpolations of his own—a trick exposed while the Court was 
sitting, and which, but for the indulgence of Cabet, would have 

been punished by Jules Favre’s expulsion from the Paris bar. Of 
all the documents quoted by him as documents of the Internation- 
al, not one belongs to the International. He says, for instance, 

“‘The Alliance declares itself Atheist, says the General Council, constituted in 
London in July, 1869.’ 

“The General Council never issued such a document. On the 
contrary, it issued a document which quashed the original statutes 
of the ‘Alliance’—L’Alliance de la Démocratie Socialiste at 
Geneva—quoted by Jules Favre. 

“Throughout his circular, which pretends in part also to be 
directed against the Empire, Jules Favre repeats against the 
International but the police inventions of the public prosecutors of 
the Empire, and which broke down miserably even before the law 
courts of that Empire. 

“It is known that in its two addresses (of July and September 
last) on the late war, the General Council of the International 
denounced the Prussian plans of conquest against France. Later 
on, Mr. Reitlinger, Jules Favre’s private secretary, applied, though 
of course in vain, to some members of the General Council for 
getting up by the Council a demonstration against Bismarck, in 
favour of the Government of National Defence; they were 
particularly requested not to mention the Republic. The prepara- 
tions for a demonstration with regard to the expected arrival of 
Jules Favre in London were made—certainly with the best of 
intentions—in spite of the General Council, which, in its address 
of the 9th of September, had distinctly forewarned the Paris 
workmen against Jules Favre and his colleagues. 

“What would Jules Favre say if, in its turn, the International were 
to send a circular on Jules Favre to all the Cabinets of Europe, 
drawing their particular attention to the documents published at 
Paris by the late M. Milliere? 

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 
“John Hales, 
“Secretary to the General Council of the International 
“Working Men’s Association. 

“256, High Holborn, W.C., June 12th.” 

In an article on “The International Society and its aims,” that 
pious informer, the London Spectator (June 24th), amongst other 
similar tricks, quotes, even more fully than Jules Favre has done, the 
above document of the “Alliance” as the work of the Internation- 
al, and that eleven days after the refutation had been published in 
The Times. We do not wonder at this. Frederick the Great used to say 
that of all Jesuits the worst are the Protestant ones. 

Karl Marx 
{TO THE EDITOR OF THE PALL MALL GAZETTE} 

F. GREENWOOD, ESQ. 
8 June 1871 

My dear Sir, 

Would you oblige me by inserting the following few lines in your 
next publication? 

Yours faithfully, 
K. Marx