The Empress Eugénie: 1910-11.
Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Eugénie, who is deeply interested in the future of Prince and Princesse Napoleon, celebrated her eighty-fifth birthday on May 5, 1911. The unexpected and tragic death of King Edward, on May 6, 1910, came as a great shock to the Empress, who had known our beloved Sovereign from his boyhood—in fact, since 1855, when, some six months before he had attained his thirteenth year, he and his eldest sister (the Princess Royal, afterwards Crown Princess of Prussia, and later Empress Frederick) accompanied their august parents on their memorable return visit to the Emperor and Empress of the French. As Prince of Wales, King Edward had been present, earlier in that year, at the installation, at Windsor, of the Emperor Napoleon III. as a Knight of the Order of the Garter, and heard from his royal mother that, after the ceremony, the Emperor had expressed his gratitude for the honour conferred upon him, and, in a moment of rare expansiveness, had said to the Queen, “Now, at last, I feel I am a gentleman!”—a frank admission which much pleased, and probably amused, our beloved sovereign lady.
A week after the King’s death I learnt (although no mention of the fact had been made public) that early on the morning of May 7 (His Majesty passed away at a quarter before midnight on the 6th)—the Empress Eugénie had telegraphed “heart-felt condolences” to Queen Alexandra, Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll. It was also confided to me that, immediately after telegraphing, the Empress, although momentarily “stupefied” by the calamity which plunged our Empire into mourning, had written what were described to me as “very beautiful and most pathetic letters” to the three royal ladies. I was privileged to see other letters written by the Empress in May, 1910, and I do not hesitate to say that they were truly remarkable productions, revealing Her Imperial Majesty (as the Emperor once wrote of her) “in her true colours.”
I have a word to add. The Empress commissioned a Paris art firm to execute a very beautiful souvenir of King Edward. This she sent to Queen Alexandra, and in the autumn it was placed near the King’s tomb in St. George’s Chapel, Windsor. The Empress lunched (for the last time) with King Edward and Queen Alexandra, at Buckingham Palace, on December 16, 1907, when the imperial lady was accompanied by Mrs. Vaughan (whose sister, Mme. De Arcos, represented the Empress at the funeral of Queen Victoria) and M. Pietri.
In the summer of 1910 the Empress cruised in the Thistle for more than two months, visiting, besides Italian ports, Corfu, Athens, the Dalmatian coast, Smyrna, and Constantinople, which she first saw in 1869, when she went to Egypt to inaugurate the Suez Canal. The Sultan of those distant days and the Sultan of these entertained her. In the August of 1910 the Empress was in the Solent, and witnessed the launch of the Orion at Portsmouth. Later in the year she lunched, for the first time, with the King and Queen at Marlborough House, M. Pietri accompanying her.
The Empress signalized her eighty-fifth birthday (May 5, 1911) by a very pleasant cruise in the Mediterranean, as the guest of Sir Thomas Lipton, Bart., on board his yacht Erin, and on June 24 she witnessed the review of the fleet.
In my previous volume[187] I dwelt upon the solicitude of Queen Victoria and other members of our Royal Family—notably King Edward and Queen Alexandra—for the Empress Eugénie and the fatherless Prince Imperial. I note the fact here because I am delighted to find that the details which I gave of that more than cordial—that affectionate—relationship are supplemented by M. Xavier Paoli in his volume of Souvenirs, entitled “Leurs Majestés....”[188] Some two years ago, in the “Pall Mall Gazette,” I announced M. Paoli’s intention to produce his reminiscences, and I emphasized the opinion that his work would contain some entertaining and piquant “indiscretions” concerning Queen Victoria and the Empress Eugénie. That my anticipations have been fully realized will be seen by what follows.
When Queen Victoria was at Nice a grave responsibility fell upon those who, like M. Paoli, the “Protector of Sovereigns,”[189] were charged with the onerous duty of guarding the royal residence without any great display of force, almost without any indication of it. The small body of infantry installed near the Queen’s abode had merely to present arms when the august lady appeared, and when French official personages called upon her.
One afternoon there was a “piquante adventure,” and all on account of “the” Empress. M. Paoli’s amazed gaze fell upon the little infantry force drawn up in the court, and he asked the officer in command “the cause of this mobilization, which was not in the day’s programme.” The officer replied that he had turned out the guard at the request of the Queen’s Courier, M. Dosse, who explained that Her Majesty was expecting the visit of “a crowned head.” Somewhat annoyed at his ignorance of what was about to happen, M. Paoli further questioned M. Dosse, who remarked: “Then you know nothing about it?” “Ma foi, non.” “Well, we are expecting the Empress Eugénie.” Paoli jumped. “What!” he exclaimed, “you want soldiers of the Republic to render honours to the former Empress of the French!” “I admit,” answered M. Dosse, “that I did not look at it from that point of view.” “But,” said M. Paoli, “I do look at it from that point of view;” and he requested the officer to march his men off immediately.
A few days later M. Paoli related the incident to the Empress, who said: “Oh, how pleased I am that you have told me about it! Certain papers would have made me responsible for what happened, and my very delicate position would not have been improved.”
When the Empress attends a church in England other than St. Michael’s, Farnborough, it is an event. On Sunday, August 14, 1910, Her Majesty, accompanied by M. Pietri and Miss Vaughan, landed at Cowes and heard Mass at the church of St. Thomas of Canterbury. The celebrant was the Rev. John O’Hanlon, who told me he was born and brought up at Dumfries, less than a dozen miles from Closeburn, the home of the Kirkpatricks, from whom, through her mother, the imperial lady descends. The Empress walked up the steep road leading from Cowes Pier to St. Thomas’s Church. An observant spectator wrote of her: “Except for a slight lameness, the Empress has the activity and vigour of a well-preserved woman of sixty. The glorious chestnut hair, though now iron-grey, is still abundant, the eyes are bright, the features finely chiselled. The Empress, who once led fashions for all Europe, is now content to follow far in their wake, for the skirt of her simple costume was much ampler than those lately seen on the Royal Yacht Squadron’s lawns, while her coat had sleeves of a bygone fashion.” In the afternoon the Empress visited Princess Henry of Battenberg, at Osborne Cottage. On the following day (August 15, the date of the great fête in the Empire period) Princess Henry and Princess Christian took tea with the Empress on the Thistle, which remained in the Solent for several days. The Queen of Spain and Princess Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein were other visitors. The Empress was seen walking on the parade at Cowes, but no one noticed the “slight lameness” referred to, which, in fact, is non-existent.
On February 4, 1911, the daily papers announced the death of John Brown, of Southwold, aged seventy-four, “a pensioner of the Empress Eugénie”; and it was added that Brown “brought the Prince Imperial’s body home.” This was incorrect. Colonel Pemberton had charge of the remains from the Cape to Woolwich. The body was brought to England by the Orontes, and transhipped at Portsmouth to the Enchantress, which conveyed it to Woolwich. On board those vessels, besides Colonel Pemberton, were the Abbé Rooney, the Prince’s valet (Uhlmann, who died some four years ago), and two grooms (Lomas and Brown).
In January, 1911, the Empress’s friends read in the Paris papers the somewhat disquieting announcement that MM. André de Lorde and A. Binet had written a play called “Napoleon III.,” in which both the Emperor and the Empress Eugénie will figure. French dramatists have hitherto, I think, refrained from presenting the august lady on the stage, and it is only within the last five years that the Emperor was impersonated in a piece entitled
THE LATE COMTESSE DE MERCY-ARGENTEAU
(née COMTESSE CARAMAN-CHIMAY).
From a private and unpublished photograph, courteously presented to the Author in 1911 by the Comte de Pimodan, the well-known author of a recently-issued valuable work on the Comte F. C. de Mercy-Argenteau, counsellor and confidant of Marie Antoinette.
“La Savelli,” by M. Max Maurey, produced by Mme. Réjane at her new theatre, Rue Blanche, in December, 1906. In the part of the Emperor M. Buguet acted with much distinction. His “makeup” was surprisingly good.
Very different was the treatment of the Emperor on the German stage, as recently narrated by M. Jules Claretie: “I was disgusted at seeing, at a Berlin theatre, in an adaptation of an old French féerie, Napoleon III., caricatured by a low comedian, dancing a cancan, his breast adorned with the grand cordon of the Légion d’Honneur.”
In December, 1907, MM. Julien and Marcel Priollet selected “Napoleon III.” as a title for their piece, produced at the Comédie de l’Époque, “amidst the bravos of the public.”
The Prince Imperial was dragged on the stage as a consequence of the “romantic” story first told to his detriment in 1879.[190] So persistently was the rumour spread that the Prince Imperial had lost his heart to an English girl that a German play was written on the subject and produced at the theatre at Kreuznach within a month of the Prince’s death in Zululand. In this amazing piece, which the German Government allowed to be performed at the fashionable watering-place (where the Empress Eugénie had “made a cure” some time after the war of 1870, and by whose inhabitants she was consequently well known), the Prince Imperial was portrayed in love with a gamekeeper’s daughter, “Miss Mary.” A rival tried to shoot the Prince, who escaped by the aid of a German servant, “Reinecke.” The story, as unfolded on the stage, showed that, when the Prince had made up his mind to go to the Cape, the Empress offered a bracelet to “Miss Mary,” who, regarding it as an attempted bribe, refused it, declaring melodramatically that woman’s love was “not to be bought with gold.” The dramatist made the most of the Zulus’ “surprise” of the reconnoitring party, numbering nine all told, led—or assumed to be led—by Lieutenant Carey, 98th Regiment; and the attack, the abandonment of the Prince by his comrades, and his cruel slaying by the savages were all enacted. The scene of the last act was described as “the crypt of the Catholic Church, Chislehurst,” and the Empress Eugénie was seen giving her dead son’s last letter to “Miss Mary,” who revealed to the imperial lady that she had been really married to the “little Prince” before he left for the Cape.
Not long after the tragedy of the First of June some Zulus were exhibited in Paris, and for fourpence, in a booth, illumined by oil lamps, M. Proudhon saw “how the Prince Imperial was killed”!
These fragments are pieced together for the sole purpose of completing the record of the history of the Empress given in my first volume. Such a record, imperfect as it may be, will not be found elsewhere. To be able to infuse into the narrative a note of gaiety is most agreeable to me, as I hope it will be to my readers at home and abroad.
One glorious summer afternoon[191] I roamed through rhododendron land. Oh the beauty of it!—the joy of living in so fair a world, a Paradise terrestrial! Through leafy mazes I wandered into gardens, where the air was laden with the perfume of roses and honeysuckles. For miles, and miles, and miles all was forest—dense, impenetrable forest. Unwillingly I left this scene of enchantment and entered a park. My brief midsummer day’s dream was over. I was invited to mount one of quite a “stable” of prancing steeds, galloping in a circle—“patronized by the Royal Family and the English aristocracy.” I was urged to “try my skill” in the art—say, rather, the science—of casting wooden rings over clocks, vases, and Lowther Arcade prettinesses in general. I was tempted by roundabouts, swings, “hooplas,” cocoanut shies, Aunt Sally, and “numerous side-shows.” “Zara,” the “celebrated Palmiste,” offered me “peeps into the future—the past laid bare”—“Zara,” whose “remarkable character readings” were guaranteed to “astonish you” (I felt sure of it). “Afternoon, 2s. 6d.; evening, 1s.” I could not, unfortunately, stay until the evening, or perhaps I might have made “Zara’s” acquaintance—at the reduced fee.
And what else? A Pastoral Play—scenes from “As You Like it,” presented by the “Marlboro’ Players”; a Venetian play, “The Honour of the Joscelyns”; a Vaudeville entertainment, by “The Bluebirds,” an “amateur association of ladies formed for the purpose of providing entertainments for the poor in winter, and also assisting deserving organizations”; a concert; Morris dances; a “display” by 100 boy scouts; daylight and evening fireworks.
It was a two days’ Coronation Fête, given at Farnborough Hill, “by kind permission of H.I.M. the Empress Eugénie,” in aid of the funds of the county branch of the National Service League. Farnborough had never seen the like, and rose to the occasion. I imagine that this garden festival “at the Empress’s” will be, as it deserves to be, writ large in Hampshire history.
Since the appearance of my first volume,[192] “the Empress’s Church”—St. Michael’s, Farnborough—has received an addition. While the Empress was on her unwontedly long cruise in the Thistle during part of May and the whole of June and July, 1910, a striking scene was being enacted within the walls of St. Michael’s. For some months the quiet which ordinarily reigns in the Mausoleum was disturbed. Sculptors and masons—French and English—appeared, masses of stone were hauled into the church, and the sound of mallets and chisels reverberated through the great crypt, which extends beneath the choir and transepts. Entering the crypt, I gazed at the transformation which had been effected. I saw a third tomb! It is a graceful arch, rising from the back of and surmounting the high altar. All who have visited the Catacombs at Rome will recall the “table” tomb and the “arched” tomb, and will not need to be told that the latter, from its shape, is the arcosolium. These tombs differ only in the form of the surmounting recess. In the “table” tomb the recess above, essential for the reception of the entombed body, is square. In the arcosolium, a form of later date, the recess for the tomb is semicircular, as at Farnborough. These modes of interment were adopted by the early Christians. I leave it to the archæologists to tell us whether or no the Empress Eugénie’s arcosolium is unique in this country. I cannot recall anything resembling it. A space behind the altar is occupied by a massive block of masonry, with a flat surface, flush with the side walls from which the arch springs, and upon this the Empress’s sarcophagus (assuming it should take that form, and so harmonize with the granite tombs of the Emperor and the Prince Imperial) will rest.
Here, then,
“In God’s own time, but not before,”
Eugénie de Montijo, Empress, will sleep her last long sleep with her beloved Dead—Exiles all.
The historian who comes after us will find in this place of Napoleonic sepulture ample materials for a moving chapter. He will have to re-narrate, with the assistance of my modest records, the amazing rise and the more astounding downfall of an Emperor and the deplorable end of a Prince. But he will “use his best ink” in the endeavour to limn a faithful portrait of her who held the world in thrall by her beauty, who has endured her martyrdom with a resignation and fortitude so admirable as to have compelled the affectionate solicitude of the nation whose honoured guest she has been for forty-one sorrowful, yet not wholly gloomy, years.
As I write these closing lines the air is full of processional melody, the Town gay with colour. I think, not of the Empress, when she, like our own beloved Albert Edward and Alexandra, was the centre of adulation, but of the Woman, in the not unkindly winter of her life, kneeling before a tomb—her own. It is All Saints’ Day—the Jour des Morts[193]—and in the crypt she mingles her prayers with the Benedictines’ “pour tous les fidèles défunts.” So I had seen her aforetime, and some words I heard then will not be kept back when the sluices of memory are opened:
... And now, as in a strain of music, the theme comes back again, and we end with the first notes with which we began, so, if our thoughts have for a while run in another channel, they fall back into the great deep of sweet sorrow, and, I will say, of thanksgiving, for that noble, princely youth who has passed before our eyes with the brightness of a ray of light, and from this world has disappeared for ever.... What a morning in life it was when that beautiful youth entered into this world! What a mother’s joy! If ever son was worthy of a mother’s love, it was he. And if ever mother loved a son as an only son can be loved, it was she. What a desolation now! The solitary home. All alone. Yet not alone; for they who believe are never lonely. They have come unto “Mount Sion, and to the City of the Living God; to the company of many thousands of angels; to the Church of the first-born, who are written in the heavens; to God, the Judge of all; to the spirits of the just made perfect”; to the great cloud of witnesses ever about them. And as the Mother, who, when her Divine Son was in the grave, looked on with certain confidence to the glory of the Resurrection, to the future recognition in personal identity, and in the restored bonds of Mother and of Son in all the perfection of maternal and filial love glorified in eternity, so is it now. And this will be her consolation.... And what is the longest life of waiting but a little while at last?[194]
The light beats down, the gates of pearl are wide:
And she is passing to the floor of peace.
And Mary of the seven times wounded heart
Has kissed her lips ... the Light of Lights
Looks always on the motive, not the deed,
The Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.
The time will come when we shall be able to unveil the whole truth to the world.
I shall continue to hope for a future of truth and of justice.
The Empress Eugénie.
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL
(THE POET LAUREATE’S SONNET)
Felix Opportunitate Mortis.
Exile or Cæsar? Death hath solved thy doubt,
And made thee certain of thy changeless fate;
And thou no more hast wearily to wait,
Straining to catch the people’s tarrying shout
That from unrestful rest would drag thee out,
And push thee to those pinnacles of State
Round which throng courtly loves, uncourted hate,
Servility’s applause, and envy’s flout.
Twice happy boy! though cut off in thy flower,
The timeliest doom of all thy race is thine:
Saved from the sad alternative, to pine
For heights unreached, or icily to tower,
Like Alpine crests that only specious shine,
And glitter on the lonely peak of Power.
Alfred Austin.
INDEX
[A], [B], [C], [D], [E], [F], [G], [H], [I], [J], [K], [L], [M], [N], [O], [P], [R], [S], [T], [U], [V], [W], [Z]
A
Abdul-Aziz, [387]
Aguado, Mme., [63], [153]
Albany, Duchess of, [83]
Albe, Duc d’, [4], [47]
Duchesse d’, [57], [62], [107], [153]
Mlles. d’, [293]
Albuféra, Maréchale d’, [47]
Duchesse d’, [353]
Alcanises, Marquis d’, [60]
Aldama, Mme. de, [153]
Alexander II., Emperor, [297]
Alexandra, Queen, [388], [389]
Allsop, Mr. (Orsini), [83]
Alten, Count von, [206]
Alvensleben, General von, [208]
Ambès, Baron d’, [24], [270]
André, M., [269], [270]
Angely, Marshal Regnault de Saint-Jean d’, [78]
Aoste, Dowager Duchesse d’, [349], [351], [354], [358]
(late), Duc d’, [380]
Duc d’, [382]
Duchesse d’, [382]
Arcos, Mme. de, [73], [153], [386], [389]
Argyll, Duchess of, [388]
Arnaud, Mme. St., [37]
Auber, M., [79]
Augusta, Queen of Prussia, [291]
Aumale, Duc d’, [201]
Austin, Alfred (Poet-Laureate), [400]
Austria, Empress of, [148]
Emperor of, [168], [356], [371]
Autemarre, General d’, [192], [193]
Auvergne, Prince de La Tour d’, [194]
Azeglio, Marquis d’, [230]
B
Bacciochi, Comte, [100], [269]
Baden, Grand Duchess of, [31]
Bapst, M. Germain, [168], [184], [186], [190]
Baroche, M., [271]
Barron, Mrs., [155]
Barrot, M., [271]
Bartholini, Mme., [133], [134]
Bassano, Duc de, [300]
Mlle. de, [352]
Bassano, Duchesse de, [40]
Battenberg, Princess Henry of, [377], [388], [392]
Prince Henry of, [377]
Bazaine, Marshal, [181], [183], [192], [193], [196], [199], [201], [202], [203], [210], [294], [304], [305]
Beaumont, Comtesse de, [149]
Beckwith, Miss, [155]
Bedmar, Marquis de, [45]
Belgiojoso, Princesse, [154]
Marquise de, [60]
Benedetti, Comte, [282], [291]
Beneyton, Monsieur H., [352]
Bernhardt, Mme. Sarah, [385]
Berryer, M., [26]
Bertrand, M., [306]
Beust, Count, [166], [298]
M. and Mme. Maurice, [385]
Bigelow, Mr. John, [108]
Billault, M., [271]
Bischoffsheim, Mme. Ferdinand, [155]
Bismarck, Count von, [69], [75], [125], [208], [218], [220], [221], [275], [278], [291], [292], [332], [333]
Blanchet, M., [379]
Blessington, Lady, [19], [22], [28]
Bojano, Duchesse de, [154]
Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland, [8], [9], [28], [29]
Prince Pierre, [21], [336]
Prince Roland, [385]
Princesse Jeanne, [385]
Princesse Marie (Princess George of Greece), [385]
Princesse Lætitia, [385]
Prince Lucien, [385]
Princess Lucien, [385]
Boulanger, General, [370]
Bourbaki, General, [291]
Bourgoing, Baron de, [75], [133]
Brown, Mr. John, [392]
Bruat, Admiral, [328]
Mlles., [328]
Brunswick, Duke of, [80]
Buguet, M., [393]
Burdett-Coutts, Miss, [31]
Burgoyne, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John, [231], [233], [234], [235]
Lady, [231], [233]
C
Cabanel, M., [135]
Cabrol, Dom, Lord Abbot of St. Michael’s, Farnborough, [377]
Calderon, M., [153]
Calmette, M. Gaston, [278]
Canisy, Mme. de, [149], [155]
Canrobert, Marshal, [74], [78], [182], [192], [193], [196], [197], [198], [199], [200]
Mme., [169]
Carette, Mme., [57]
Carey, Lieutenant, [306]
Carrère, M. Jean, [357]
Carroll, Mrs., [155]
Cassagnac, MM. de, [345]
Paul de, [217], [303]
Castelbajac, Comte de, [153]
Castellane, Marquis de, [274]
Castelnau, General, [213]
Castiglione, Comtesse de, [137], [141], [154]
Cavour, Count, [229], [230]
Chaband-Latour, General, [178]
Chambord, Comte de, [370]
Chambrier, M. James de, [88]
Changarnier, General, [271]
Chapelle, Comte de La, [301], [320]
Vicomte de La, [301], [308]
Chaplin, Mr., [72]
Charette, General Baron de, [155]
Chasseloup-Laubat, Marquise de, [155], [328]
Chazal, General, [190], [222]
Chigi, Mgr., [143]
Chimay, Prince de, [363]
Christian, Princess, [392]
Circourt, Comtesse de, [229]
Clarendon, Lord, [97], [111]
Claretie, M. Jules, [393]
Clary, Comte, [316], [317]
Conegliano, Duc de, [236]
Conneau, Dr., [23], [24], [103], [105], [228], [301]
Mme., [72]
M., jun., [133]
Constantine, Grand Duke, [120]
Contades, Marquise de, [42]
Conti, M., [276]
Cornu, Mme., [27], [275]
Corvisart, Baron, [211]
Courson, General de, [213]
Courtval, Mme. de, [163], [164]
Coventry, Lord, [72]
Cowley, Lord, [100]
Lady, [101]
D
Daru, Comte, [284]
David, M. Jérôme, [184], [185], [190], [286]
Davilliers, Comte, [211]
Delafosse, M. Jules, [343], [344]
Delessert, Mme., [2]
M. Edouard, [100]
Demidoff, Prince Anatole, [32], [41], [384]
Denmark, King of, [386]
Diego, M., [153]
Dino, Duchesse de, [45], [47]
Dion, Marquis de, [356]
Dosse, M., [390], [391]
Douay, General, [169]
Ducrot, General, [211]
Dumas, Alexandre, [163]
Dumont, General, [192]
Dumoulin, M. Maurice, [227]
Duperré, Charles, [180], [185], [192], [193], [194], [195]
Durangel, M., [185]
Duruy, M., [383]
Duvernois, M. Clément, [286]
E
Edinburgh, Duke of, [387]
Edward VII., King, [387], [388], [389]
Edwards, H. Sutherland, [206]
Ellrichshausen, Colonel von, [220]
Espinasse, M., [271]
Eugénie, the Empress:
sees her future Consort for the first time, [1];
her Paris education, her friends, departure from Paris for Spain, [2];
the school at Clifton, in her teens, at the bull-fights, the “élégants,” [3];
“Ugenia” and the Spanish Dukes, the Comtesse de Montijo’s salon and her “pollos,” [4];
a variegated life, travels, Eugénie at Buckingham Palace, [5];
at the Palmerstons (London), in the Pyrenees, [6];
Eugénie at Compiègne, the courting, the Fortoul incident, [33];
the Emperor’s offer of marriage, [34];
the Court divided on the question, [35];
the gipsy fortune-teller, [36];
the lovelorn Dukes, snubbing the fiancée, the hasty Empress, [37];
“a delicate question,” [38];
the Emperor’s real opinion of Eugénie, “only my husband shall kiss me,” [39];
discomfited Ministers, [40];
M. Thiers’ sarcasm, Princesse Mathilde’s appeal to the Emperor, [41];
Eugénie at Princesse Mathilde’s ball, she is “the actual rising sun,” at the Opera, [42];
she makes splendid “copy” for the papers, some unflattering people, [43];
the Comtesse de Montijo’s parsimony, enthusiasm of the Madrid Press, [44];
the Duchesse de Dino’s amusing letters, jokes made about the Empress, [45], [46], [47];
the Heralds’ College, Paris, explains the genealogy of the Montijo-Guzmans, [48];
portrait-in-words of the Empress, [49-69];
at Biarritz, [70], [71];
the Empress and the Grand Prix, [72];
quality of the Tuileries’ wine criticized, “not so good as Pinard’s,” a military review, [73];
Eugénie “in all the radiance of her beauty,” [74];
the “Bal des Souverains,” [75];
other fêtes to the Foreign Sovereigns and Princes, the Empress’s success as hostess, [76];
the Empress and Isabelle, the flower-girl, [79];
some distinguished people, [80];
the Orsini “attempt,” the Empress’s courage, [83-87];
as the result of “scenes,” the Empress goes to Scotland, [89];
the Empress Eugénie and the Empress of Mexico, a scene at St. Cloud, the weeping Eugénie, [93];
the Empress at Windsor Castle, the “Garter” conferred upon the Emperor in the Empress’s presence, [94], [95];
the Empress with Queen Victoria at Osborne, [97];
her happy days in the Isle of Wight, [98];
the Empress’s “great” and “little” balls, [99];
the Empress seldom dances, [100];
she tells a story at one of the “Mondays,” [101], [102];
the Duchess of Sutherland and the Empress, [105], [106];
Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower describes the Empress at the Tuileries and at Windsor, [106], [107];
visit of the Empress to Stafford House, [107];
an American diplomatist describes the Empress “without a country,” [108];
the Empress’s letter on cricket, [111], [112];
the Empress at Fontainebleau, the Imperial Hunt, [115];
Eugénie’s apartments at Fontainebleau formerly occupied by Marie Antoinette, the boudoir, “she would have liked to milk a cow and to make butter,” the procession to the imperial bedrooms, [117];
the Empress improvises open-air dinners, her “turlututus,” she is a “romantic,” [119];
Pierrefonds, the château which gave the Empress a travelling-name, she admires the eighteenth century, at Fontainebleau she is happiest, [120];
the splendours of Fontainebleau, the ladies’ stories, [121];
“talk to the Empress about her crinolines” (De Morny), [122];
the Empress speaks loudly, her drives, luncheons, and excursions, [123];
she enjoys herself when wet through, and pays a fine for being late at dinner, [124];
a dramatic incident at Fontainebleau, the Empress in tears at a Ministerial Council, [126];
the first of “the Compiègnes,” attended by Eugénie and her mother, both ardent sportswomen, [129];
family gathering on the Empress’s fête-day, life at Compiègne, the Empress acts in a piece by Feuillet, [132];
Her Majesty in high spirits, rejoicing at the coming struggle in Mexico, [135], [136];
the Empress blamed for countenancing the “Exotics,” [137];
she is thrown among cosmopolitan society, [138];
the Empress, Princesse de Metternich, and the Comtesse de Castiglione, enthusiasm of the Austrian Ambassador for the Empress, [141];
influence of the Princesse over Eugénie, [143];
what she said about Her Majesty, [148];
the beautiful Duchesse d’Albe, the Empress’s sister, [153];
the Empress welcomes the Spanish ladies, [154];
a great favourite of the Empress, [160];
the Comtesse E. de Pourtalès and the Empress, [161];
the Empress’s war telegrams to the Emperor, her courage and hopefulness, indefatigable exertions, and ability as Regent, [165-201];
new versions of the Empress’s flight from the Tuileries and escape from Paris, [223-228];
story of Chevalier Nigra and the Empress, [230-231];
Sir John Burgoyne’s narrative of the Empress and the voyage from Deauville to Ryde, [231-234];
what the Empress told Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower at Chislehurst, the bust of Marie Antoinette swept off the table, [235], [236];
the exact hour of the Empress’s departure from the Tuileries, September [4], 1870, [237];
“the Empress’s crown of thorns,” her heroic conduct after Sedan, [237], [238];
plot to defraud the Empress described by M. Pietri, [238], [239];
list of objects left at the Tuileries in 1870 by the Empress, the Emperor, and the Prince Imperial, [240-244];
the Empress’s complaints to Queen Victoria of English newspaper attacks upon the Emperor, Bismarck a favourite of the Empress, [275];
M. Émile Ollivier and the Empress, [277];
the “Case” for the Empress, published in the volume, “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,” her own statement, [278];
what the Empress said upon reading that the Hohenzollern candidature was withdrawn, [291];
“Do your duty, Louis!” [293];
M. Émile Ollivier’s courageous defence of the Empress, and confirmation of her statements in the “Case,” [295];
the Author’s remarks on the “Case,” [296];
the critics, Comte de La Chapelle, and the Empress, [301];
Marshal Bazaine and the Empress, [304];
the Vicomte de La Chapelle confirms statements published in “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,” [305];
the Empress and the Comte de La Chapelle, [316], [317];
the Empress and Colonel Stoffel, [323];
the Empress’s presents to Prince and Princess Napoleon on their marriage, [353], [354];
a portrait of the Empress chez Prince Napoleon, [365];
Prince Napoleon and Princesse Clémentine visit the Empress at Farnborough Hill, [373];
King Leopold, Princesse Clémentine, and Princesse Stéphanie visit the Empress at Cap Martin, ibid.;
the Empress at her Hampshire home, [374], [375];
the Empress at eighty-five, her letters of condolence to Queen Alexandra, Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, on the death of King Edward, and her Imperial Majesty’s beautiful souvenir of the King, [388], [389];
the Empress’s last visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace, her long cruise in 1910, her visit to the Sultan, she witnesses the launch of the Orion and lunches with King George and Queen Mary at Marlborough House, a cruise in the Erin as the guest of Sir Thomas Lipton, she is present at the King’s Coronation Review of the Fleet, [389];
M. Paoli narrates an adventure at Nice concerning the Empress, [390], [391];
the Empress hears Mass at the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Cowes, [391];
she visits and is visited by English Princesses, and walks on the Parade at Cowes, [392];
death of one of her pensioners, ibid.;
a new French play, “Napoleon III.,” with the Empress and the Emperor as characters, other Napoleonic plays, [392-394];
a garden festival in the park and grounds of the imperial residence, Farnborough Hill, [395];
the Empress’s tomb at St. Michael’s Abbey Church, [396];
Cardinal Manning’s eulogy of the Empress and the Prince Imperial, [398], [399];
the words of the Empress, [399]
Evans, Mr. T. W., [223], [226], [227], [231], [232]
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Falize, MM., [353]
Farnborough Hill, idyll of, [373]
Farquhar, Mr., [25]
Fave, General, [75]
Favre, Jules, [26], [288]
Flandre, Comtesse de, [351], [352], [354], [371]
Comte de, [387]
Fleury, Comte, [21], [60], [68], [78], [271], [276]
Comtesse, [78]
Flowers, Miss, [3]
Forest, Baron de, [158]
Fortoul, M. and Mme., [33], [37], [128]
M., [271]
Fould, M. Achille, [35], [47], [48], [61], [149], [271]
Frederick Charles, Prince, [219]
Frias, Duchesse de, [153]
Frossard, General, [171], [172], [173], [180], [181], [182], [293], [334]
G
Galliera, Duchesse de, [142]
Galliffet, Marquise de, [73], [106], [133], [155], [159], [160], [161]
Marquis de, [79], [160], [161]
Mlle. Diane de, [159]
Gamble, Mr., [217]
Gautier, Théophile, [79], [363]
Geneva, Bishop of, [360]
Gerlach, General von, [273]
German Emperor and Empress, [372], [373]
Glenesk, Lord (Mr. A. Borthwick), [110], [300]
Goddard, Monsignor, [393]
Goltz, Baron, [71]
Major-General Count von, [75]
Gordon, Mrs. (née Bruault), [20]
Gounod, M., [135]
Goze, General, [212]
Grammont-Caderousse, Duc de, [79], [151], [152], [160]
Gramont, Duc de, [282], [291], [292], [293], [295], [296], [297], [298]
Greece, King of, [386]
H.R.H. Prince George of, [385]
Gricourt, Marquis de, [21], [281], [282]
Guadalcazar, Marquis de, [153]
Guadalmina, Marquise de, [153]
“Gyp,”
[37]
H
Halévy, M., [154]
Hamilton, Duchess of, [73]
Harry, M. Gérard, [349], [368]
Hastings, Marquis of, [72], [73]
Hatzfeldt, Count, [155]
Haussmann, Baron, [75], [177], [178], [194]
Hériot and Chauchart, MM., [150]
Hérisson, Comte d’, [231], [259]
Hertford, Marquis of, [152]
Hilliers, Marshal Baraguay d’, [176], [186], [189], [190], [191]
Hirsch, Baron, [158], [159]
Hohenzollern, Princess Adelaide of, [31]
Prince of, [285]
Prince Leopold of, [31]
Holland, King of, [80], [81], [82], [387]
Prince of, [387]
Hope, Mr., [156]
Hortense, Queen, [7], [8], [9], [10], [11], [13], [17], [19], [21], [28], [32]
Houssaye, Arsène, [79]
Hugo, Victor, [370]
I
Isabelle, [79], [153]
Ismaïl Pasha, [387]
Italy, King of, [168], [348], [349], [353], [355]
Queens of, [354]
J
Jablonowski, M. Maurice, [385]
James, Sir Henry (Lord James of Hereford), [221]
Jersey, Lord and Lady, [31]
Joséphine, Empress, [19]
Juarez, President, [136]
K
Kératry, M. de, [286]
L
Laborde, Comtesse de, [2], [38]
Lafitte, M. Charles, [79]
Lagrange, Comte de, [79]
Lambert, Baron, [133], [162]
Lano, Pierre de, [137], [140], [141], [143], [259]
Lansdowne, Marquis and Marchioness of, [377]
Lebœuf, Marshal, [75], [107], [170], [177], [181], [187], [188], [189], [192], [193], [195], [199], [201], [204]
Lebreton-Bourbaki, Mme., [223], [224], [225], [226], [227]
Lebrun, General, [183], [189], [199], [201], [212], [213], [214]
Legge, Edward, [206], [222]
Legouvé, M., [132]
Lejeune, Mme., [328]
Leopold II., [345], [370], [371]
Lhuys, Drouyn, de, [35], [36], [37], [111], [271]
Mme., [128]
Lieven, Princesse de, [153]
Ligne, Princesse E. de, [353]
Lipton, Sir Thomas, [389]
Lomas, Mr., [392]
Lonyay, Comtesse (Princesse Stéphanie), [373], [377]
Lorde, M. André de, [392]
Louise (of Belgium), Princesse, [378]
Louis XVIII., King, [234], [235]
Lyons, Lord, [71], [73]
M
Mackau, Baron de, [279], [280], [295]
MacMahon, Marshal, [169], [170], [174], [176], [182], [195], [210], [211], [214], [215]
Magnan, Marshal, [115], [271]
Magne, M., [197], [271]
Maillard, M. J., [236], [237]
Malbert, M., [362]
Malmesbury, Lord, [6], [31]
Manchester, Duke and Duchess of, [206]
Manning, Cardinal, [398], [399]
Manoel, King of Portugal, [362], [380]
Manzoni, Signor, [230]
Marcello, Comtesse, [154]
Maria Pia (the late), Queen, [371], [387]
Marie Henriette Anne (the late), Queen of the Belgians, [345]
Marrast, M., [268]
Marx, Adrien, [73], [76], [77]
Masera, Monsignor, [352]
Massa, Marquis de, [79], [119], [132], [145], [162]
Masson, M. Frédéric, [236], [369]
Mathilde, Princesse, [32], [36], [41], [42], [62], [72], [128], [174], [218], [361], [383], [384]
Mattachich, Count, [378]
Mauget, M. Irénée, [43], [44], [61]
Maupas, M., [270], [271]
Maurey, M. Max, [393]
Meilhac, M., [154]
Meissonier, [135]
Mentschikoff, Prince, [152]
Mercy-Argenteau, Comtesse de, [245-258]
Mérimée, Prosper, [1], [3], [61], [66], [230]
Mermillod, Cardinal, [360]
Metternich, Princesse de, [73], [106], [133], [134], [137], [141], [142], [143], [144], [149], [155], [173], [227], [297], [386]
Metternich, Prince de, [79], [133], [141], [142], [173], [175], [197], [227], [228], [229], [297], [298]
Mexico, Empress Charlotte of, [90-94], [371]
Mitchell, M. Robert, [218]
Mocquard, M., [103]
Moltke, General von, [208], [387]
Montmorency, Duc and Duchesse, [173]
Monts, General Count von, [281], [282]
Monaco, the late Prince of, [387]
Moncalieri, the Mayor of, [350]
Montijo, Comtesse de, [1], [4], [32], [42], [43], [48], [61], [129]
Morny, Duc de, [35], [36], [79], [122], [153], [271], [276]
Duchesse de, [72]
Mouchy, Duc de, [80]
Duchesse de, [376]
Moulton, Mrs., [73], [155]
Murat, Prince, [386]
Murat, Princes Achille and Lucien, [21]
Prince Joachim, [31]
Musard, Mme., [81]
Musset, Paul de, [135]
N
Napoleon III., the Emperor:
arrives in Paris under arrest, and is seen for the first time by Mlle. Eugénie de Montijo, [1];
boyhood and youth, [7];
his father and mother, [9];
travels in Italy, the prophecy of a negress, Louis Napoleon imbued with his mother’s superstitious ideas, “What would you do to obtain a livelihood?” [10], [11];
at the age of seven, he implores Napoleon I. “not to leave for the war,” a curious conversation with the Emperor, [12], [13];
the boy’s character, “a type of German dreaminess,” [14];
the “doux entêté,” a prediction of the “Grand Albert,” the boy’s one quality, [15];
George Sand’s remark, the Prince’s education vitiated, his docility, effects of changes of scene, drawbacks to study, some of his writings, [16], [17];
Louis Napoleon’s life in London, [18];
his drawing-rooms full of souvenirs and relics, his rides and drives, he makes numerous friends, Lady Blessington, he publishes his “Idées Napoléoniennes,” [19];
De Persigny and the Prince, Louis Napoleon’s failure at Strasburg, Mrs. Gordon, [20];
Fleury, De Persigny, and the Marquis de Gricourt, the Prince deported to America, he meets the Murats and Prince Pierre Bonaparte, returns to London, goes to Arenenberg, and is present at his mother’s death, his proclamations posted at Boulogne, [21];
how Boulogne took the announcements, [22];
the expedition to France, a fiasco, the conspirators fly, the Prince and others jump into the sea, some are drowned, arrest of the Prince and most of his adherents, [24];
letter from Thélin, the Prince’s valet, dated from a Paris prison, [25], [26];
the Prince and others are tried at the Luxembourg, [26];
the sentences—the Prince to be perpetually imprisoned in a fortress, his six years at Ham, he is assisted by Mme. Cornu, his foster-sister, [27];
escape of the Prince from Ham, his arrival in London, death of his father, the Prince becomes comparatively rich, and buys a house for Miss Howard, [28];
Louis Napoleon’s letter to his father on the subject of marriage, [29], [30];
he denies that he is a pretender to the hand of Queen Doña Maria, [30];
the Prince’s matrimonial advances, [31];
Mlle. Eugénie de Montijo and her mother, [32];
the Montijos at Compiègne, card-playing, Eugénie has “a very good hand,” the courtship, Eugénie is insulted, [33], [34];
the sympathetic Emperor, he offers marriage, and announces his intention in a speech from the throne, [34];
objections to the marriage, [35];
M. Drouyn de Lhuys and Mlle. de Montijo, De Morny’s saying, [36];
ladies oppose the marriage, Eugénie is persecuted at Compiègne, [37];
analysis of her temperament, [38];
Mlle. de Montijo will not allow anyone to kiss her but her husband, [39];
criticism of the Emperor’s fiancée, Princesse Mathilde begs the Emperor to abandon his intention, [41];
Lamartine supports the Emperor, “everybody courts Mlle. de Montijo,” [42];
the Comtesse de Montijo and the generous Emperor, [44];
“what a responsibility to have a young wife, beautiful, and southern!” a story of the Emperor and Eugénie, [46];
after the marriage, “the Empress submits everything to the Emperor,” [47];
the Empress and her diamonds, [48];
the Emperor
deplores his Consort’s waywardness, “scenes,” some “distraction for the poor Emperor,” who is to be “shown some pretty women,” the Emperor cautions the Empress against “people who are no better than spies,” [54];
a letter from the wife to the husband, [55];
the Emperor and Empress much discussed in Paris and London, sidelights upon their lives, [57];
the Emperor induces the Empress to travel in Scotland, [58];
the Emperor provides an unknown poet with a wife, [58-60];
the Emperor insists upon strict etiquette, [60];
the Emperor and his wife’s letters, “scenes” between the Imperial couple, [61];
the Emperor orders the Empress’s mother to leave Paris, the Empress’s playfulness with the Emperor in the garden, the Emperor refuses to allow the Comtesse de Montijo to return to Paris, [62];
the Emperor “is suspicious and severe to excess,” he gives Mme. Aguado her congé, the Empress “chaffs” her Consort, [63];
a charming letter from the Empress to Napoleon III., her Majesty’s letters to the Emperor before their marriage, [66];
the Empress “knows how to deliver the Emperor from General Fleury and M. Émile Ollivier,” [68];
the Emperor’s mispronunciation of some French words, Bismarck’s sarcasm, Napoleon “only looked a real Emperor when he was mounted,” [69];
the Emperor and Biarritz, [70];
the wife of His Majesty’s doctor, [72];
the Emperor honours Alexander II., the Tsarevitch, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince, [74], [75];
the Emperor shows his Royal guests his stables and his twelve saddle-horses, [76], [77];
the story of “Mr. Allsop” (Orsini) and the attempted assassination of Napoleon III. and his wife, [83-87];
the Emperor as the “Sire de Framboisy,” [87], [88];
the Emperor’s “political successes and military glories,” [88];
reconciliation of the French Sovereigns, [89];
the Empress of Mexico at St. Cloud, a dramatic episode, Napoleon “bewildered,” “tears were in all eyes, even the Emperor’s,” the official account of the Empress Charlotte’s visit, [92-94];
Queen Victoria invests Napoleon with the Order of the Garter, “Enfin, je suis gentilhomme,” [95-97];
the Emperor and Empress visit Queen Victoria and the Prince Consort at Cowes, the Emperor’s mot, [97], [98];
at a ball at the Tuileries, before the marriage, the Emperor dances with Lady Cowley and with Mlle. de Montijo, [101];
the Emperor’s toilet, an amusing scene, [102-105];
Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower describes the Emperor at a Tuileries ball, [106], [107];
an American Minister’s opinion of Napoleon III., [108];
Lord Glenesk’s comical story of the Emperor who “did not want to be snubbed again,” [110], [111];
the Emperor’s liking for Fontainebleau, his curious Louis XV. hunting-dress, English friends welcomed, [113], [114];
torchlight “curées” and gay “shoots,” [116];
Napoleon III. sleeps in the room of Napoleon I., the forest the great attraction at Fontainebleau, [118];
the Emperor and Empress are “romantics,” [119];
when their Majesties arrive—“how different to the Tuileries!” [121];
the Théâtre Impérial, Fontainebleau, Albéric Second’s amusing “saynète” and De Morny’s witty impromptu, [121], [122];
the Emperor’s unconventional garb, [122];
music at dinner, “the Emperor had no ear,” his favourite tunes, [123];
at Fontainebleau the Emperor smokes and talks with Bismarck, they have a “political walk” through the grounds, [125];
an incident at a Council at Fontainebleau, “the Empress burst into tears, and left the Council Chamber,” [126];
the Emperor at Compiègne, the Imperial “buttons,” a “final act of diplomacy,” [129];
Christmas theatricals, a big “meet” on Christmas Day, guests at the “séries,” a miscellaneous company, [130];
good dinners and excellent music, [131];
various games, amateur play-acting, the Emperor “plays” a piano-organ, the Marquis de Massa’s “skit” on the Emperor’s “Commentaires de César,” [132];
enemies and intrigues, the Emperor “using himself up,” [143];
the Emperor promises the Princesse de Metternich that “Tannhäuser” shall be produced, [145], [146];
the Emperor gives Liszt the Cross of the Légion d’Honneur, [147];
the Emperor and the Marquise de Galliffet, [160];
the Comtesse Edmond de Pourtalès, a warm friend of the Emperor and Empress, warns them of Prussia’s intentions, [161];
the Emperor’s war telegrams to the Empress, [166-196];
Napoleon III. at Metz “seemed to be dreaming,” “he had become an embarrassment,” [199];
the Emperor, Canrobert, Lebœuf, and Bazaine together at the Préfecture, Metz, Napoleon hands over the command to Bazaine, [201];
the Emperor’s Aide-de-Camp, General Pajol, describes the battle of Sedan and the splendid courage of His Majesty, [210-216];
was the Emperor rouged at Sedan?, [216-218];
interviews of Napoleon with Bismarck, the King of Prussia, and the Crown Prince, [218-221];
the Emperor en route to Wilhelmshöhe, he writes a full explanation of the causes which led to his defeat, [221-222];
a list of the property left at the Tuileries in 1870 by the Emperor, the Empress, and their son, [240-244];
the Emperor’s letters to the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau, [248-258];
the Emperor’s other correspondence, [259-267];
Napoleon as Citizen, President, and Emperor, his extraordinary letter concerning Miss Howard, [269], [270];
the history of the coup d’état, [270-272];
his four years’ Presidency of the Republic, [273];
tributes of M. Émile Ollivier and Baron de Mackau to Napoleon III., [276-281];
the Emperor, at Wilhelmshöhe, writes a detailed statement of his policy as regards Germany, [281-291];
what the King of Prussia was asked to write to Napoleon III., [291-292];
the people who forced the Emperor to declare war, [292];
last words of Napoleon to M. Ollivier, [293];
Napoleon III. is left without allies and goes to war single-handed, [298], [299];
the Emperor and his collaborator, the Comte de La Chapelle, [301-304];
how the Emperor and “the Cause” were financed, the Comte de La Chapelle’s letters to the Emperor, [308-318];
letter of Napoleon III. to M. Rouher, [319], [320];
in letters to Colonel Stoffel M. Franceschini Pietri speaks for the Emperor, [321-337]
Napoleon, General Prince Louis, [379]
Prince (the late), [41], [72], [128], [294], [297], [298], [326], [345], [358], [383], [384]
Princesse (the late Clotilde), [100], [345], [347], [350], [352], [354], [358], [359-361], [381], [382], [384]
Prince (the Pretender), [339-384]
Princesse (Clémentine), [345], [348], [349], [350], [352], [353], [354], [355], [369-378]
Emperor (I.), [8], [9], [12], [13], [16], [19], [347]
Naeyer, Comtesse de Smet de, [353]
Ney, Edgar, [35], [115]
Niel, Marshal, [181], [200], [279], [280], [323], [333]
Nieuwerkerque, Comte de, [41], [79]
Nigra, Chevalier, [124], [227], [228], [229], [230], [298]
Noir, Victor, [336]
O
Offenbach, Jacques, [79], [151]
O’Hanlon, Rev. John, [391]
Ollivier, M. Émile, [68], [168], [178], [180], [276], [277], [281], [282], [283], [284], [287], [292], [293], [294], [295], [296], [297], [301], [303], [324], [369]
Orléans, Duc d’, [344]
Princesse Hélène (Duchesse d’Aoste), [382]
Ossuna, Duc d’, [4], [36], [45]
Owl, The, and some of its writers, [110]
P
Padoue, Mlle. de, [29]
Padwick, Mr., [72]
Pajol, General, [209], [211], [213], [215], [216]
Palikao, General, [89], [186], [187], [188], [190], [192], [194], [201], [296]
Mlles., [328]
Pallez, M. Lucien, [372]
Palmerston, Viscount and Viscountess, [6]
Viscount, [97]
Panizzi, Dr., [1]
Paoli, M. Xavier, [389], [390],
[391]
Parieu, M. de, [271]
Pasquier, M., [26]
Duc d’Audiffet, [344]
Patti, Adelina, [72]
Paule, Don François de, [31]
Payne, Mrs., [155]
Pearl, Cora, [152]
Pellé, General, [214]
Pemberton, Colonel, [392]
Pepa, [197]
Perrin, M., [133]
Persigny, Duc de, [20], [21], [24], [27], [35], [63], [276], [281]
Duchesse de, [128], [151]
Pestel, Captain von, [208]
Philippe, King Louis, [18], [348]
Pietri, M. Franceschini, [170], [183], [228], [238], [239], [276], [300], [321], [325-338], [376], [386], [389], [391]
Pilié, Mrs., [155]
Pinard, M., [73]
Pius IX., Pope, [371]
Plon, M., [331]
Podbielski, Count von, [205], [207], [208]
Poet Laureate (sonnet, “The Prince Imperial”), [400]
Polk, Miss, [155]
Poïlly, Mme. de, [133]
Poniatowski, Prince, [174], [175]
Pope, the, [355]
Portugal, Queen (Doña Maria) of, [30]
King of, and Infant Don Fernando, [135]
Post, Mrs. and the Misses, [155]
Pourtalès, Comtesse Edmond de, [73], [133], [134], [149], [155], [161], [162], [386]
Prim, Marshal, [31]
Prince Imperial, [71], [74], [78], [293], [294], [298], [304], [306], [307], [315-317], [379], [383], [393], [394], [398], [400]
Priollet, MM. Julien and Marcel, [393]
Proudhon, M., [394]
Prussia, Crown Prince of, [77]
Prussia, Frederick William, King of, [273]
Crown Princess of, [107]
Crown Prince of, [170], [218]
R
Régnier, Archduke, [369]
Réjane, Mme., [393]
Riario-Storza, Duchesse, [154]
Richard, M. Maurice, [187]
Richter, Captain von, [208]
Ridgway, Miss, [154]
Ripon, Lord, [25]
Rivas, Duchesse de, [153]
Rochefort, M. Henri, [80], [284], [336], [345]
Romieu, M., [271]
Ronalds, Mrs., [155], [386]
Rooney, the Abbé, [392]
Rose, J. H., [277]
Rostopchine, Comte, [152]
Rothschild, Baron and Baronne Alphonse de, [162]
Rouher, M., [271], [311-314], [320]
Rowles, Miss, [31]
Royer, M. de, [271]
Rudolph, Archduke, [378]
Russell, Lord John, [88]
S
Sagan, Princesse de, [73], [149], [155], [156], [157], [158], [159], [160], [164]
Prince de, [158], [159], [160]
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[1] This has been confirmed by M. Émile Ollivier in the “Revue des Deux Mondes” (1911).
[2] “Quarterly Review,” April, 1910.
[3] “Les Élégances du Second Empire.” Par Henri Bouchot. Paris: À la Librairie Illustrée. 1896.
[4] “La Cour des Tuileries” (Conférence prononcée à la Société des Conférences le 17 janvier, 1910). Paris: “La Revue Hebdomadaire” (Plon), 1910. “Mes Souvenirs et Impressions.” Par le Marquis de Massa. Paris: Calmann-Lévy.
[5] General Palat, author of “La Guerre de 1870-1871,” completed in October, 1910. In seventeen volumes. Paris and Nancy: Levrault et Cie.
[6] Péladan, the “Figaro,” March 19, 1910.
[7] Author of an article on French Children in “Blackwood’s Magazine,” December, 1871.
[8] “Reminiscences of Carl Schurz.” London: John Murray. 1909.
[9] “Etions-nous prêts?” Par Émile Ollivier. Tome XV. Paris: Garnier. 1911.
[10] Paris: E. Dentu. 1868.
[11] Paris: Victor Havard. 1894. London and New York: Harper and Brothers.
[12] “L’Impératrice Eugénie.” Paris: Sociétés des Publications Littéraires Illustrées. 1909.
[13] “Amours Tragiques de Napoléon III.” Paris: Albin Michel. 1910.
[14] “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[15] Vide “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[16] “Contemporary France,” by Gabriel Hanotaux. London: Constable. 1907.
[17] This lady was at Chislehurst when, in 1873, the Emperor passed away.
[18] The Exhibition building was erected at the western end of the park, midway between Rotten Row and the Ladies’ Mile.
[19] “She is a very beautiful woman, who will be well able to maintain her position, inasmuch as they say she is ‘made for the part.’”
[20] Paris: Félix Juven.
[21] The King himself is asserted to have declared that “not a drop of Bonaparte blood flowed in the boy’s veins.”
[22] M. de La Guéronnière.
[23] At the Bibliothèque Nationale there is an interpretation of the “Prédiction Miraculeuse du Grand Albert sur Louis Napoléon Bonaparte,” published two years before December 2, 1851 (the date of the coup d’état).
[24] “Idées Napoléoniennes.”
[25] The site of the Royal Societies Club, which (1911) numbers among its members a Bonaparte (Prince Roland).
[26] The Prince is also said to have had lodgings at one time at Waterloo Place.
[27] “Mémoires inédits sur Napoléon III.” Par le Baron d’Ambès; Recueillis et Annotés par Charles Simond et M. C. Poinsot. Paris: Société des Publications Littéraires Illustrées.
[28] The nominal author of a remarkable pamphlet written at Wilhelmshöhe by Napoleon III.
[29] This promise Conneau kept. He shared the Prince’s captivity at Ham, and heard the last words Spoken by Napoleon III. on January 9, 1873: “Etiez-vous à Sedan?”
[30] The mother was Alexandrine Vergeot, a maker of sabots, who helped the prison-porter’s wife to keep the canteen tidy. She married Louis Napoleon’s foster-brother, and died poor at Paris in 1886.
[31] King of Holland, 1806-1810.
[32] This lady died in 1910.
[33] “L’Impératrice Eugénie.” Paris: Société des Publications Littéraires Illustrées. 1909.
[34] King of Westphalia, grandfather of Prince Victor and General Prince Louis Napoleon.
[35] “Souvenirs de la Duchesse de Dino” (Chronique, tome iv.). Paris: Plon.
[36] The ever-recurring infidelities of her consort prompted the long-suffering Empress to absent herself from France for a while, and to confide her troubles to Queen Victoria.
[37] Mme. de Ferronays.
[38] A prominent Minister of the period.
[39] The Emperor’s description in the local records.
[40] M. Pinard was a prominent Minister, who died in 1910.
[41] Mme. De Arcos and her sister, Mrs. Vaughan, reside in London (1911). The first-named lady represented the Empress Eugénie at the funeral of Queen Victoria.
[42] His son, the present Baron, one of the doughtiest of Bonapartists, after the war married the celebrated actress, Mme. Reichenberg, who assisted at a charitable fête in 1911.
[43] A well-known artiste.
[44] General Roguet, who was sitting outside, had been badly injured in the neck, and bled profusely.
[45] Derived from “Amours tragiques de Napoléon III.,” by Gaston Stiegler. Dedicated to M. Adrien Hébrard, rédacteur-en-chief of Le Temps.
[46] For what is known as “the Orsini attempt” to murder the Emperor and Empress on January 14, 1858, Orsini and Pierri were executed. Gomez and Count Rudio were sent to the galleys for life, the latter having been reprieved at the last moment. Rudio escaped from his prison, and died in California in 1910, aged seventy-seven.
[47] Then Prime Minister.
[48] Palikao (Montauban) was War Minister, under the Empress’s Regency, at the downfall of the Empire.
[49] The idea of Napoleon III. appears to have been to secure what he called “the American equilibrium” by founding in Mexico “a regenerating Empire.”
[50] Prosper Mérimée.
[51] “Amours Tragiques de Napoléon III.” Par Gaston Stiegler. Paris: Albin Michel.
[52] Dr. Conneau was with the Emperor at Sedan, at Wilhelmshöhe, and at Chislehurst until the end came in January, 1873.
[53] The Duchess of Sutherland.
[54] There had been serious misunderstandings between the Emperor and Empress, and the latter came to London for a few days, staying at Claridge’s, en route to Scotland.
[55] Napoleon III. made a somewhat similar present to the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII.).
[56] “Reminiscences,” 3 vols., 1910. London: Unwin.
[57] “Salathiel,” a romance, by George Croly, on the subject of the Wandering Jew.
[58] Until the autumn of 1910 the Flora Pavilion remained undisturbed. Then some changes were made for Government purposes in the rez-de-chaussée and the two floors, the kitchens being left intact, just as they were prior to 1870.
[59] Nothing remains of the cellars but the walls. All the furniture, fittings, and utensils of the Tuileries kitchens have been preserved intact, and this sous-sol of the Flora Pavilion is now one of the curiosities of the Louvre.
[60] The late Lord Glenesk, in a conversation with Lady Dorothy Nevill shortly before his death.
[61] Uncle of Mrs. Borthwick (Lady Glenesk).
[62] “Partant pour la Syrie,” composed by Queen Hortense, became the French National Hymn under Napoleon III. It was founded upon the imaginary exploits of a soldier, Dunois, in Palestine, and, translated, was a very popular song in England in the fifties and sixties.
[63] Bismarck had been recalled from St. Petersburg to replace Comte Albert de Pourtalès at Paris.
[64] James de Chambrier.
[65] The Comtesse Edmond de Pourtalès (who happily survives in 1911) had, it is true, courageously uttered no vague warnings; but they fell on heedless ears.
[66] “Souvenirs et Impressions.” Paris: Calmann-Lévy.
[67] Of the five ladies mentioned, two survive in 1911—Princesse de Metternich and Mme. E. de Pourtalès. Mme. Bartholoni died this year.
[68] “L’Impératrice Eugénie.” Par Pierre de Lano. Paris: Victor-Havard.
[69] M. Pierre de Lano.
[70] The “star” of the Alcazar—the Yvette Guilbert of the Second Empire period.
[71] The Empress.
[72] She still (1911) resides at Vienna, and is one of the rapidly-vanishing participants in the splendours of the Second Empire.
[73] This was a pardonable exaggeration. We know from the Princess’s own lips that her fan was too valuable to be destroyed in a moment of anger.
[74] M. Chauchart died in 1910, leaving an enormous fortune and a marvellous collection of works of art.
[75] “Entre l’Apogée et le Déclin,” par James de Chambrier. Paris: Fontremoing.
[76] Ludovic de Grammont (sometimes spelt with one “m”), Duc de Caderousse, died in 1865.
[77] The Irish Emma Crouch, whose father composed “Kathleen Mavourneen.”
[78] Brother of Prince Anatole Demidoff, who married Princesse Mathilde, aunt of the Princes Victor and Louis Napoleon.
[79] “Sornette.”
[80] It was this old soldier whose support was so anxiously sought by Napoleon III. after Sedan.
[81] Mme. (Edmond) de Pourtalès is (1911) the sole survivor of these four charmeuses.
[82] The wealthy gentleman who adopted the Baron de Forest as his son.
[83] One of the heroes of the historical cavalry charge at Sedan.
[84] Daughter of Baron Lionel, sister of Lord Rothschild, and widow of Baron Alphonse. She died on January 6, 1911.
[85] Needless to say, Sunday is the great race-day in Paris: the reason why “the Prince”—the King—of happy memory never witnessed the contest for the Grand Prix.
[86] In other words, the question of protecting the Pope.
[87] The Prince Imperial’s so-called “baptism of fire.”
[88] Count Vimercati, one of the Emperor of Austria’s representatives.
[89] M. Franceschini Pietri, the Emperor’s Secretary.
[90] The day of her flight from the Tuileries.
[91] Subsequently the late Baron de Hirsch purchased this hôtel, No. 1, Rue de l’Elysée, at the corner of the Avenue Gabriel.
[92] After Sedan General Chazal conducted Napoleon III. from Belgium to Verviers (Prussia).
[93] This officer is now an Admiral. He visited the Empress Eugénie at Cap Martin in February, 1911.
[94] All these valuables were delivered to the Empress soon after her arrival in this country (September 8, 1870).
[95] I am greatly indebted to MM. Plon-Nourrit, the eminent Paris publishers, for most kindly permitting me to print the Sovereigns’ war despatches and the summary of events in August, 1870. They are from the valuable work, “Le Maréchal Canrobert,” by the well-known writer, M. Germain Bapst, an admitted authority on the subject. Five volumes of this brilliant historical work have already appeared through MM. Plon-Nourrit et Cie., and M. Bapst is engaged upon the sixth volume, to be issued in 1912.
[96] August, 1870.
[97] H. Sutherland Edwards, Edward Legge, and Victor Silberer.
[98] The narrative of General V. Pajol, aide-de-camp of Napoleon III. To the best of my belief it has not appeared in any French, and certainly not in any English, volume.
[99] “La Débâcle.”
[100] Revue des Deux Mondes.
[101] This historical episode had an echo in 1888. The Colonel, then a member of the Reichstag, was unexpectedly sent for by Bismarck, who said: “The Press has been stating that I treated Napoleon with undue roughness upon the occasion of our meeting at Donchéry. You were the only eye-witness of the scene, so do you tell them the truth.”
[102] This remarkable document appears textually only in “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper & Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[103] From the late Duc de Conegliano’s volume (1897), “La Maison de l’Empereur,” preface by Frédéric Masson. Paris: Calmann Lévy.
[104] Statement by M. Pietri to “Le Matin” in 1910.
[105] This pavilion was not destroyed by the Communards in 1871. It contains the kitchens of the Tuileries (vide p. 108).
[106] Mother of Napoleon I.
[107] Of these four ladies, two survive in 1911—the Duchesse de Mouchy and the Comtesse E. de Pourtalès.
[108] The letters are reproduced by arrangement with Herrn Paul Lindenberg.
[109] The Emperor’s former Secretary, and later a Deputy.
[110] “Les Forces Militaires de la France en 1870.”
[111] Charles Thelin had been the Emperor’s valet at Ham, and was employed in a confidential capacity during the reign.
[112] “Mémoires inédits sur Napoléon III.,” par le Baron d’Ambès. Recueillis et Annotés par Charles Simond et M. C. Poinsot. Paris: Société des Publications Littéraires Illustrées.
[113] “Memoirs of General von Gerlach.” Published, in German only, in 1891.
[114] “Men and Things of My Time,” by the Marquis de Castellane. London: Chatto and Windus. 1911.
[115] Probably a reference to a public religious service in connection with the Crimean War.
[116] “The Story of my Struggles,” by Arminius Vambéry.
[117] In Roman history the period of the reigns of Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius was generally characterized by domestic tranquillity.
[118] “The Development of Nations,” by J. H. Rose. London: Constable. 1905.
[119] Napoleon III., January 3, 1870.
[120] Editor of “Le Figaro.”
[121] His Majesty’s own detailed statement of the causes which, in his opinion, led to the defeat of his army at Sedan appears textually in the volume, “The Empress Eugénie: 1870—1910” (and, I think, in no other work). London: Harper and Brothers; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[122] “La Captivité de Napoléon III. en Allemagne,” par le Général Comte C. de Monts, Gouverneur de Cassel. “Souvenirs traduits de l’Allemand,” par Paul Bruck Gilbert et Paul Lévy. Préface de Jules Claretie, de l’Académie Française. Paris, Pierre Lafitte et Cie. 1910.
This positive statement of General von Monts is confirmed by M. Émile Ollivier (“Le Figaro,” October 22, 1910). The Marquis de Gricourt was a Chamberlain of Napoleon III. and also a Senator.
[123] Through the Liberal Empire.
[124] One of the cardinal points of the Emperor’s policy, foreshadowed by him when he was in London in 1839-40.
[125] M. Ollivier’s critics condemn him for disregarding Marshal Niel’s earnest appeals to increase the military forces of the Empire, and so put the country in a proper state of defence. The annual contingent was, in fact, as the Emperor notes, reduced by 10,000 men!
[126] His Majesty ignores the fact that for at least two years there had been throughout the country a growing feeling of discontent, aroused, to a large extent, by M. Henri Rochefort’s denunciations (in the “Lanterne”) of the Emperor, the Empress, and the Court.
[127] These extracts were doubtless translated by the Emperor himself, for not one of those who were with him at Wilhelmshöhe could speak a word or read a line of German! Napoleon III. had an almost better acquaintance with German than with French, and he spoke French as many Germans speak it, the result of his early education in Germany and Switzerland.
[128] A Bonapartist intransigeant who greatly influenced the Empress.
[129] Strictly speaking, it was exactly five weeks later.
[130] July, 1870.
[131] “Les Causes et les Responsabilités de la Guerre de 1870.” Par H. Welschinger. Paris: Plon. 1910.
[132] To similar assertions the Empress Eugénie, in her Reply to her Accusers, gives an emphatic denial.
[133] Part of the chorus of one of Nadaud’s popular songs.
[134] Revue des Deux Mondes (January 1, 1911). “La Guerre de 1870: Notre Première Défaite.”
[135] Ibid.
[136] The Baron de Mackau (previously referred to in this chapter).
[137] Known at the Foreign Offices, but unknown to the outside world, the Press included.
[138] From the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Count Beust, Chancellor of Austria-Hungary, July, 1870.—“Deutsche Rundschau,” 1910.
[139] London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[140] “Peasants, you are being deceived.”
[141] Communicated by the Vicomte de La Chapelle (1911). The Comte de La Chapelle’s dramatic description of the painful scene at Camden Place, Chislehurst, on the day of the Emperor’s death is given in the volume, “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[142] He had been convicted of treason in December, 1870, but the death-sentence was commuted to twenty years’ imprisonment. He escaped on August 9, 1874.
[143] The Vicomte thus confirms the assertions on this point published in “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[144] Communicated by the Vicomte de La Chapelle (1911).
[145] The loans for paying the war indemnity of five milliards (£200,000,000).
[146] The Emperor.
[147] The Emperor died on January 9.
[148] The Comte de La Chapelle had supported Zola in the Press respecting one of the historical passages in “La Débâcle.”
[149] See the facsimile on the previous page.
[150] Colonel Stoffel’s Reports were published in 1871 under the title, “Rapports Militaires Ecrits de Berlin: 1866-1870.” Paris: Garnier.
[151] The Colonel died in 1907, aged eighty-eight.
[152] M. Émile Ollivier, writing in the “Revue des Deux Mondes” (December 1, 1910), proves that Lebœuf was absolutely accurate when, in July, 1870, he said emphatically, “Nous sommes prêts, archi-prêts” (We are ready—more than ready).
[153] M. Pietri’s deeply-interesting and historically-important letters appeared in the influential and deservedly popular magazine, the “Revue de Paris,” on June 15 and July 1, 1911. I am greatly indebted to the Editor of the “Revue de Paris” for very kindly allowing me to print some extracts from these valuable documents, which are “revelations” in the best sense of the word.
[154] General Trochu, the valiant soldier who deserted the Empress in her great extremity (September, 1870).
[155] Prince Napoleon, father of the Bonapartist Pretender of to-day.
[156] The needle-gun (Zundnadelgewehr), first used by the Prussians in warfare that year (1866) in the Austrian campaign.
[157] Wife of the Minister of Marine in 1851, and again from March, 1859, until January, 1867.
[158] Daughters of General Cousin-Montauban, Comte de Palikao.
[159] Daughters of Admiral Bruat (who died at sea on returning from the Crimea to France).
[160] The Imperial Hunt.
[161] A devoted ally of the Empress Eugénie. He survives in 1911.
[162] M. Pietri hints that the Prussian postal officials were “très indiscrets.”
[163] “Who goes slowly, goes well. Who goes well, goes far.”
[164] Literally, “drinkers of blood”; figuratively, “bloodthirsty.”
[165] It may be safely assumed that these amounts came from the Emperor’s purse.
[166] The Emperor.
[167] The Bismarcks.
[168] Bismarck.
[169] The chassepot.
[170] Divisional-General Frossard, aide-de-camp of the Emperor, member of the Committee of Fortifications. Governor and chief of the Military Household of the Prince Imperial from 1868.
[171] The Belgian National Anthem.
[172] It was pointed out to the Prince that “la République a bien du monde à caser; elle a fait beaucoup d’enfants qui veulent être nourris et pensionnés.”
[173] By inadvertence the Princess was described in the “banns” as the “eldest,” instead of the “youngest,” daughter of the late King and Queen!
[174] Napoleon I. always objected to the use of the surname “Bonaparte”; consequently, the three stones (now to be seen at the Invalides) on his tomb at St. Helena bore, and bear, no inscription.
[175] The Royal Basilica, near Turin.
[176] This lady, one of Princesse Napoleon’s dames d’honneur, is a daughter of that Duc de Bassano who was the Grand Chamberlain of Napoleon III. He was at Chislehurst with the Imperial Family, and, later, was often to be seen at the Empress Eugénie’s residence, Farnborough Hill. The author has occasion to remember him with gratitude.
[177] This was presented to Princesse Napoléon on April 6, 1911, by the Duchesse d’Albuféra, who was begged by the imperial couple to convey their grateful thanks to the dames Françaises for their superb gift.
[178] This was nonsensical. Etiquette precludes the King’s guests from visiting the Pope.
[179] The day following the Empress Eugénie’s flight from the Tuileries, and the same day on which Her Imperial Majesty actually left Paris for the coast.
[180] It would be idle to suppress a fact which everybody knew, and knows, that the Prince had been a Freethinker all his life.
[181] Princesse Clotilde died at Moncalieri on June 25, 1911.
[182] In a letter to Théophile Gautier.
[183] M. Gérard Harry, the celebrated Belgian publicist, author of a very pungent, detailed, and erudite criticism, in “La Grande Revue” (Paris), of the volume “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[184] M. Harry Gérard.
[185] “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. This volume contains the only “intimate” account of the Empress’s English home ever published.
[186] Constructed and erected in 1910, a few months before the visit of Prince Napoléon and Princesse Clémentine to the Empress at Farnborough Hill.
[187] “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[188] Paris: Ollendorff. 1911.
[189] His official title was “Commissaire Spécial, attaché aux Souverains étrangers en France,” a post which he resigned nearly two years ago.
[190] When this monstrous tale of an alleged liaison was widely published eight years later—in January, 1887—I denied it in the Pall Mall Gazette, on the authority of Monsignor Goddard. In 1911 it was again revived.
[191] June 7 and 8, 1911.
[192] “The Empress Eugénie, 1870-1910.” London: Harper and Brothers; New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1910.
[193] November 2, 1910: St. Michael’s, Farnborough.
[194] “In Memory of the Prince Imperial.” Sermon at St. Mary’s, Chislehurst, on Sunday, July 13, 1879, by Henry Edward, Cardinal Archbishop.