A revolt among the students at a Paris school called the Lycee Louis le Grand will occupy a conspicuous place in the history of academic insurrections. It originated in the displeasure of the boys at the expulsion of one of their number, and before it was finally quelled a detachment of forty policemen, one of whom was seriously wounded, had to break open the dormitories behind whose barricaded doors the rebels had intrenched themselves. The pupils sent preposterous terms of surrender to their principal, who promptly declined the same, and thereupon expelled and caused to be ejected no fewer than 270 of the refractory students.
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