The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire / Paris Society in the Sixties; Including Letters of Napoleon III., M. Pietri, and Comte de la Chapelle, and Portraits of the Period

by Edward Legge

[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.