He had for his colleague m editing the latter M. Olliyier Pain, who is probably his com panion m the escape from New Caledonia. On the establishment of the Government of the Comniune at the Hotel de Ville, M. Grousset was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. Youthful, pleasing m person, and elegant almost to effeminacy m his habits, there was nothing of the Red Republican about the Parisian dandy, whose linen was always white, whose boots were always lustrous, whose clothes were irreproachable m material and style, and who had always a flower m his button-hole and a glass m his eye. " I dress m this way," he used to say, "because I wish to honor the people." Five days after the fall of the Commune, a lady-like person was seen picking her way along the rue Condorcet just as night was falling. A sinister-looking fellow was dogging her steps, and she was about to take refuge m a side street when a second obstruction presented himself. At the same moment an empty cab drove iipl Thankful for such a means of escape, she immediately entered it. " Where to 1 " said the coachman. " Versailles," replied a gruff voice belonging to one of these rude' persons. They were agents of police, and the young lady was M. Paschal Grousset, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs. M. Jourde, who discharged the func tions of Minister of Finance under the Commune, was one of the ablest and most upright members of that short lived Government. The son of a dealer m bric-a-brac, m the rue St Placide, he received a commercial education, and after "attending, the course of lectures given at the Ecole Turgot, he entered a banking-house ; but upon joining the International, he threw up his situation and embarked m business as a haber dasher. On the establishment of the commune, he offered his services to the Central Committee, and they were promptly accepted. A compatriot, who often saw him at the Hotel de Ville, de scribes him as being at that time about twenty-eight years of age, with a finely-shaped mathematical head, long curly chesnut hair, and a very worn expression of countenance. 