[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[138] From the hitherto unpublished correspondence of Count Beust, Chancellor of Austria-Hungary, July, 1870.—“Deutsche Rundschau,” 1910.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.