Begins ‘Je viens d’expédier une lettre pour toi, Ile de Wight, et je ne ferai mettre celle ci à la poste qu’après le 9 - - -’. The Prussian army is threatening to shell the city. René [Millet] has been injured in action. Catherine has witnessed the death of Prussian soldiers in the streets. Bazaine is keeping everything 'en bon ordre'. [François Achille Bazaine, a Marshal of France; who surrendered the last organised French army to the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War]. Ministre de l’Intérieur Gambetta has left for Tours by balloon. French armies are marching on Paris.