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& so on; They all shut up before dark. Lest might it appear the rioting was very bad. The cavalry again, charged down the Boulevard all the way from Goupile [[?]] to the Madeleine.  As the crowd went down with a run the hind ones [[?]] getting trampled & salved the front ones demolished everything that was breakable overturned every kiosque or newspaper stand & omnibus set [[?]] & tried to make barricades.  The cavalry are feared in there wide boulevards.  In moderate streets they are worth nothing for the people run into a wine shop & throw the bottles & tumblers in the street & the front horses fall & the others cant get over them.  This is the affair of half a minute.  Upsetting an omnibus is not bad.  At St. Antoine yesterday afternoon the workshops were all closed by the police at 4 o'clock in the afternoon.  some prudent people laid in bread for a week & more that came after couldnt get any.  About half past eleven there was firing & one of our boys saw squadrons of cavalry galloping up toward the quarter of the barrier of the Throne [[?]].  The newspapers dont give any news & all you can know is by those who have seen.  Cure saw the same squad of police this morning at 5 o'clock. They didnt look so proud as yesterday. [[strikethrough]] They were [[/strikethrough]] Their clothes were torn & some had been rolled in the street.  I must go see Mrs. Moore now & I will come [[strikethrough]] home early to when [[/strikethrough]] to the garden of the Luxembourg within reach of home before night fall.
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Paris June 10/69
Rochefort & Jules Fauve ran against one another in the second election - Jules Fauve didnt get elected anywhere the first time.  Jules Fauve [[strikethrough]] seemed [[/strikethrough]] has always been the leader of the opposition & yet he came within a few votes of being distanced by the furious Rochefort whose only merit known is his hot hate to the government. As to the government candidate [[strikethrough]] they could aff [[/strikethrough]] he had no chance even [[strikethrough]] against [[/strikethrough]] though the republicans were splitting their votes & no one paid any attention to him.  There have been troubles all over France in nearly all the towns.  In the country the mayor & prefects make the stupid peasant vote all on their side. [[strikethrough]] In [[/strikethrough]] By arranging [[strikethrough]] circumle [[/strikethrough]] wards [[strikethrough]] the gove [[/strikethrough]]  putting a city ward with a country one they were enabled to maintain many more that they would otherwise have done. [[strikethrough]] This [[/strikethrough]] Wherever this was done the people were furious & where it wasnt done the government lost. [[strikethrough]] Just m Now since [[/strikethrough]] There were a great many riots in consequence.  Paris became generally quiet but now [[strikethrough]] w [[/strikethrough]] finished there is worse rioting than ever.  Last night the cavalry charged on the Boulevard Montmartre & Italians opposite Goupils & a great many people trampled & some killed.  The night before it was the same thing.  Pietry the prefect is out again in proclamations calling on good citizens not to go near crowds as they will be fired into.  many of his police having

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