Daily Alta California, Volume 23, Number 7705, 27 April 1871 — How Gustave Flourens Died. [ARTICLE]

How Gustave Flourens Died.

Versailles Correspondence of the London Times, April ■■■<!.

Many of the insurgents changed their clothes when thoy found that their retreat had . been cut off. Among the rest the aide-de-camp of Uustavu Flourens, one of their chiefs, did so. In the afternoon, about four o'clock, the gendarmes were searching tho village of Chutou, when a shot came from tho window of an auberge kept by a man named Ducoq. The gendarmes enttrod the house, und when they reached the first floor one of them received a bullet in Mil shoulder at the moment when ho was entering one of the rooms. His Captain, M. Desmaret, rushed into the room, found the man who had tired the shot with a revolver in his hand, and instantly cut him down with his sabre. This man wan no other than Flourens. His uid. •-de-camp, an Italian named Cypriana, was wounded by a sabre cut and mv.de prisoner, lie had aMttmeil civil attire, but Flourens himself was in military uniform. His dead nody now lies At tho Amphitheater Hospital in this town.

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