[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.