[...] bombardant sans relä- che, du haut des buttes Chaumont et du Pere-Lachaise, les quartiers incendies pour attiser la flamme, et en ecarter ceux qui cherchaient ä l'eteindre; luttant, avec la rage d'une trou- pe de betes fauves acculees contre les soldats qui s'effor^...
The[Pg 332] insurgent batteries on the Buttes de Chaumont were replying to the guns of the troops. The infantry were already pressing their way upwards40. Some of the barricades41 were so desperately42 defended that the method by which alone the troops on the south side had been able to ...