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Excerpt from A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870: Being the Account of a Balloon Escape From the Siege of Paris and a Political Mission to London and ViennaIt is a record of a somewhat remark able episode in a stormy and remarkable year. It describes, possibly not without the inevitable bias of one sent on a'forlorn hope, the necessary refusals of Gladstone and Lord Granville to intervene in favour of France. But, as the writer quite pro phetically de...

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Excerpt from A Diplomat's Memoir of 1870: Being the Account of a Balloon Escape From the Siege of Paris and a Political Mission to London and Vienna At a time when Englishmen and Frenchmen are brothers-in-arms, a translation of this curious and little known narrative may be of interest. It is a record of a somewhat remarkable episode in a stormy and remarkable year. It describes, possibly not without the inevitable bias of one sent on a forl...