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

All at St. Cloud think of you. The hours are very long, but the idea of a better time supports our strength and our hopes.

Eugénie.

The Empress to the Emperor.

The impression produced in Paris has increased patriotic feeling without shaking confidence. I have already received a reply respecting General Douay’s widow. I expect to write to her by post.

Eugénie.

The Emperor to the Empress.

Metz,
August 6, 3 p.m.

I have no news of MacMahon. This morning the reconnoitring parties on one side of the Sarre did not observe any movement by the enemy. I now hear that there has been an engagement near General Frossard’s position. It is too distant for us to go there. As soon as I have any news I will send it to thee.

Napoléon.