The Paris Commune. Wednesday, March 22, 1871. Today another demonstration by the “Amis de l’Ordre” (Friends of Order). A procession of about 800 or more people—monarchists, aristocrats, wealthy bourgeois, opposed to the insurrection—marches through the streets of Paris to reach Place Vendôme (where the National Guard has established its headquarters).
The demonstrators, some armed with revolvers, disarm and beat two Guards and then, facing the battalions of National Guards lined up, provoke a shootout. Eight dead and about thirty wounded. The demonstration dissolves with the demonstrators fleeing in all directions.
