_Friday, 7th April_: Decree for disarming the Réfractaires. 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.

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_Sunday, 9th April_: Insurgents attempt to retake Châtillon, but are repulsed. Forts Vanves and Montrouge disabled. Mont Valérien shells the Avenue des Ternes.--Assy and Bergeret arrested by order of the Commune.

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

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_Wednesday, 12th April_: Versailles batteries established on Châtillon. The Orleans railway and telegraph out. Communications of the insurgents with the south intercepted.--Decree ordering the fall of the Column Vendôme. Decree concerning the complementary elections.

_Thursday, 13th April:_ Courbet presides at a meeting of artists at the École de Médecine. Publication of the reports of the sittings of the Commune.

_Friday, 14th April_: The redoubt of Gennevilliers taken. The troops of Versailles make advances to the Château de Bécon, a post of importance.--Lullier takes the command of the flotilla on the Seine.

_Sunday, 16th April_: Complementary elections. Organisation of a court-martial under the presidence of Rossel, chief officer of the staff.

_Monday, 11th April_: Capture and fortification of the Château de Bécon.

_Tuesday, 18th April_: Station and houses at Asnières taken by the army of Versailles.

_Thursday, 20th April_: The village of Bagneux is occupied by the Versaillais.--Reorganisation of commissions. Eudes appointed inspector-general of the southern forts. Transfers his quarters from Montrouge to the Palace of the Legion of Honour.

_Saturday, 22nd April_: Deputation from the Freemasons to Versailles.

_Monday, 24th April_: Raoul Rigault takes the office of public prosecutor, resigning the Prefecture of Police to Cournet.

_Tuesday, 25th April_: The Versailles batteries at Breteuil, Brimborion, Meudon, and Moulin de Pierre trouble the Federal Fort Issy, and battery between Bagneux and Châtillon shells Fort Vanves. Truce at Neuilly from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The inhabitants of Neuilly enter Paris by the Porte des Ternes.