Tuesday, 28th March:  4 p.m., names of the elect proclaimed at the Hotel de Ville.  Arrival of General Chanzy at Versailles.

Wednesday, 29th March:  Conscription abolished—­all citizens to be National Guards.  Pawnbroking decree.  Organisation of commissions:  executive, financial, military, etc.  Ministers to be called delegates.

Saturday, 1st April:  The Executive Committee issues a decree to suppress the rank and functions of General-in-Chief.  General Eudes appointed Delegate of War; Bergeret to the staff of the National Guard, in place of Brunel; Duval to the military command of the ex-Prefecture of Police, where Raoul Rigault was civil delegate.

Sunday, 2nd April:  Military operations commence 9 a.m.  Action at Courbevoie.  Flourens marches his troops to Versailles, via Rueil.

Monday, 3rd April:  The corps d’armee of General Bergeret at the Rond Point near Neuilly, is stopped by the artillery of Mont Valerien.  Exchange of shot between Fort Issy and Fort Vanves, occupied by insurgents, and Meudon.—­The separation of Church and State decreed.

Tuesday, 4th April:  General Duval made prisoner in the engagement at Chatillon and shot.  Death of Flourens at Rueil.—­Delescluze, Cournet, and Vermorel succeed Generals Bergeret, Eudes, and Duval on the Executive Commission.  Cluseret Delegate of War, and Bergeret commandant of Paris forces.

Wednesday, 6th April:  General Cluseret commences active operations.  Military service compulsory for all citizens under forty.  Abbe Deguerry, and Archbishop of Paris arrested.

Thursday, 6th April:  Extension of action to Neuilly and Courbevoie.  Versailles army decreed by executive authority.  Obsequies of Flourens at Versailles.—­Decree concerning the complicity with Versailles, and arrest of hostages.  The rank of general suppressed by the Commune.  Dombrowski succeeds Bergeret as Commandant of Paris.

Friday, 7th April:  Decree for disarming the Refractaires.  The guillotine is burnt on the Place Voltaire.

Saturday, 8th April:  Federals abandon Neuilly.—­Commission of barricades created and presided over by Gaillard Senior.  Military occupation of the railway termini by the insurgents.

Sunday, 9th April:  Insurgents attempt to retake Chatillon, but are repulsed.  Forts Vanves and Montrouge disabled.  Mont Valerien shells the Avenue des Ternes.—­Assy and Bergeret arrested by order of the Commune.

Tuesday, 11th April:  Marshal MacMahon, Commander-in-Chief, distributes his forces.  Commences the investment of fort Issy.

Wednesday, 12th April:  Versailles batteries established on Chatillon.  The Orleans railway and telegraph out.  Communications of the insurgents with the south intercepted.—­Decree ordering the fall of the Column Vendome.  Decree concerning the complementary elections.