A British journalist and sometime MP stays in Paris when the Prussians close the ring in 1870 and sends out letters by balloon describing life under siege. Labouchere records the politics of the new republic, the sorties and rumours, the soaring price of food, and the day he found himself eating rat, all with irreverent humour.
One of the liveliest eyewitness accounts of the Siege of Paris. Download the free EPUB.