Accept, etc.
Napoléon.
Bismarck’s Brusque Telegram to the Emperor’s Intermediary.
Two short letters of no particular importance follow, and then comes this very brusque telegram from Bismarck to the Comtesse, dated Berlin, March 27, 1871:
To the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau, Château of Ochain, near Terwagne, Belgium.
Your allusions to the conditions of peace surprise me, and prevent me from replying to your letter. It is absolutely impossible.
V. Bismarck.
Letters written at Chislehurst.
“The Future is Very Dark.”
That telegram probably led to the Emperor writing to the Comtesse as follows, a few days after his arrival in England from Wilhelmshöhe: