We didn't see much of him in the daytimehis electors and his visits and speeches and banquets de pompiers took up all his time.

Thereupon thirty sapeurs-pompiers of Paris came at full speed and succeed in mastering the remaining fire.

I did not hear, as Madam Ujfalvy-Bourdon did, the band playing the Pompiers de Nanterre in the governor-general's garden.

The engines, apparatus, and corps de pompiers, are admirably maintained, and the promptitude and regularity with which they arrive at the scene of devastation truly astonishing: indeed, were this not the case, the city must very soon be destroyed; for notwithstanding all their exertions, every conflagration makes it minus several houses, and few nights pass without bringing a misfortune of this nature.

Bicot, capitaine des pompiers.

Bicot, capitaine des pompiers.

Sometimes the tomb was in the ditch (to save digging) and once we saw the Parisian pompiers burying some German corpses in the very trench they had dug and died in.