I have forgiven my enemies, and I trust those whom I have wronged may forgive me.
As I write these lines, my daughter is resting near me, lying on a couch. She sleeps, and her young husband is painting by the window. There reigns ideal peace and serenity in this room, which overlooks a great English meadow, so fresh, so green.... It seems almost unbelievable after the years of maddening turmoil I have lived through....
My little Marthe will be a mother in a few months' time.... Her child will one day read these Memoirs. May he, when that time comes, learn—like all other readers of this book, I trust—to understand my life, to forgive whatever weaknesses have been mine, and to love his mother's mother, a woman who has made mistakes in life, but who, God knows, has paid all too dearly for them.
INDEX
[A, ] [B, ] [C, ] [D, ] [E, ] [F, ] [G, ] [H, ] [I, ] [J, ] [K, ] [L, ] [M, ] [N, ] [O, ] [P, ] [R, ] [S, ] [T, ] [U, ] [V, ] [W, ] [Z]
Abyssinia, [87], [100]
Adam, Paul, [428]
Aden, Gulf of, [86]
Africa, [86], [97]
Alexandre I., [83]
Alexandre II., [83]
Alexandre III., [69]
Algeria, [88]
Alsace, [55], [75]
Amsterdam, [61]
Annecy, [7]
Atbara, [90]
Atlantic, [86]
Aubusson, [58]
Augereau, [95]
Austerlitz, [39]
Auteuil Steeplechase, [127]
Automobile Club, [41]
Avelan, Admiral, [69]
Bach, J. S., [56], [385]
Bahr-el-Ghazal, [86], [94]
Bailloud, General, [72]
Bailly, [426]
Bâle, [12], [19]
Ballon d'Alsace, [18]
Balzac, [39], [52]
Baratier, Captain, [94], [97], [100]
Barrye, [44]
Bartholdi, [33]
Bartolozzi, [42]
Bayonne, [7], [20], [21], [22], [24]
Baudelaire, [62]
Bazar de la Charité, [69]
Beauchamp, Marquis de, [87]
Beethoven, [7], [21], [43], [51]
Bedloe's Isle, [33]
Belfort, [1], [8], [12], [15], [51]
Belgium, [86], [470]
Berlioz, [39]
Bernhardt, Sarah, [40]
Bernier, [43]
Bernstein, [430]
Besançon, [28]
Biarritz, [20], [22], [37]
Billot, General, [88]
Bizet, [39]
Blondel, [112], [113], [119], [120]
Boer War, [83], [97], [128]
Boisdeffre, General, [69]
Bonheur, Rosa, [57]
Bonnat, [43], [44], [45], [46], [54], [74], [75], [106], [110], [111], [118], [141], [409]
Bordelongue, [113]
Borghese, Pauline, [41], [70]
Borneo, [4], [58]
Botticelli, [44]
Boucher, [58]
Bouchor, [88]
Boulanger, General, [98], [430]
Bourg Saint-Maurice, [71], [73]
Brazzaville, [86]
Brazil, [4]
Briand, [276]
Brillat Savarin, [50]
Brinvilliers, Mme. de, [117]
Brisson, [87], [91], [92], [99], [103]
Brown, Sir Thomas, [267]
Brummell, [39]
Brunetière, [102]
Cairo, [97], [100]
Carnot, Lazare, [60], [68]
Carnot, President, [23], [60], [68], [71], [81], [82]
Casablanca, [130]
Casimir-Périer, President, [68], [71]
Cavaignac, General, [87], [89]
Cayenne, [101]
Ceram, [58]
Cercle de l'Union, [41]
Chabrol, Fort, [128], [138]
Chalandar, General de, [62]
Châlons, [69]
Christiani, Baron, [127]
Chambre des Députés, [76], [87], [98], [99], [101]
Chanoine, General, [92], [99]
Chardin, [59]
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, [39]
Chauchard, [57], [58]
Chopin, [20], [39]
Claretie, Jules, [430]
Clémenceau, [85], [88], [117], [129], 130
C.G.T. (Confédération Générale du Travail), [129]
Congo, [86]
Coppée, François, [43], [48], [49], [50], [102]
Connaught, Duke of, [9], [92]
Corot, [30]
Corps Legislatif, [95]
Council of the Ten, [114]
Cureau, [86]
Cuvier, [10], [11], [39]
Danton, [426]
Daubigny, [30]
Declassé, [81], [86], [87], [90], [92], [93], [94], [96], [97], [98], [99], [100], [102], [104], [105], [117]
Déroulède, [98], [127], [128]
Desmoulins, [426]
Devil's Island, [84], [94], [103]
Dieulafoy, M. and Mme., [57]
Domrémy, [3]
Don Quixote, [98]
Dreyfus (Captain), [50], [84], [85], [87], [88], [89], [91], [101], [103], [117]
Dreyfus Affair, [80], [84], [88], [94], [99], [102], [103], [112], [114], [116], [117], [127]
Dufferin, Marquess of, [101]
Dujardin-Beaumetz, [60], [400]
Dupuy, Charles, [68], [100], [103], [128]
Edward VII, [59], [83], [128], [129]
Egypt, [86], [92], [100]
Eletz, General, [62]
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, [91]
Elysée, [37], [73], [74], [75], [76], [78], [79], [92], [99], [102], [106], [107], [110], [111], [113], [117], [121], [130]
England, [81], [83], [91], [92], [94], [96], [100], [459], [462]
Entente Cordiale, [129]
Esterhazy, Major, [84], [85], [87], [88]
Eugénie, Empress, [40]
Faure, President, [18], [19], [70-97], [99-103], [106-127], [131], [137], [149], [234], [250], [342], [357], [404]
Faure, Mlle. Lucie, [88], [118]
Fashoda, [83], [84], [86], [87], [90-95], [96-100], [104], [105], [117]
Fallières, President, [129], [141], [142], [144]
Ferry, Jules, [68], [128]
Fontainebleau, [57]
Fournier, Admiral, [82]
Fragonard, [58]
France, Anatole, [51], [52]
Franco-Prussian War, [8], [80], [92]
Franco-Russian Alliance, [69], [80], [82], [96], [120]
Freycinet, de, [100]
Friedland, [39]
Gainsborough, [59]
Gambetta, [128]
Gautier, Theophile, [39]
Gervais, Admiral, [60], [69]
Girardin, Marquis de, [103]
Glück, [7]
Gobelins, [38]
Goron, [249-251]
Gortschakoff, [83]
Gounod, [12], [34], [101]
Goya, [59]
Grand Guignol, [60]
Greuze, [39]
Groult, [57-59]
Guérin, Jules, [128]
Guyana, [84]
Hague, the, [61]
Hannibal, [4]
Hanotaux, [70], [74], [87], [96]
Hâvre, [81], [88]
Haydn, [85]
Henner, [54-56]
Henry, Colonel, [84], [89], [91]
Heredia, J. M. de, [49]
Holland, [61], [470]
Hoppner, [59]
Hugo, Victor, [39]
India, [97]
Italy, [28], [470]
Institut, [33], [52]
Janssen, [133]
Japy, General, [62], [72]
Jaurès, [117]
Jena, [39]
Jibuti, [100]
Joan of Arc, [3]
Jockey Club, [40]
Journal Officiel, [120]
Kant, [134]
Kapurthala, [70]
Khartum, [90-94], [97]
Kilimanjaro, [4]
Kitchener, Sir Herbert, [90], [91], [93], [100]
Kronstadt, [60], [69], [72], 102
Lafitte, [40]
Laferrière, [88]
La Fontaine, [39]
Lalique, [106], [145]
Lamy, Major, [106], [107]
Lannes, Marechal, [39]
La Paz, [61]
La Tour, [58]
La Traversette, [71], [72]
Lawrence, [59]
Lépine, [88]
Lesseps, F. de, [34]
Le Gall, [106], [110], [112], [113]
Légion d'Honneur, [88]
Liotard, [86], [102]
Liszt, [10]
Lockroy, [88], [96]
London County Council, [129]
Longchamps, [70]
Lorraine, [55]
Loti, Pierre, [52], [53]
Loubet, President, [128], [129]
Louis-Philippe, [13], [103]
Louvre, Museum, [59]
Lucretia Borgia, [117]
Lucullus, [5]
Lulli, [7]
L'Aurore, [85], [89]
L'Echo de Paris, [214], [226], [231], [234], [274], [279], [370]
L'Eclair, [323]
Le Figaro, [430]
Le Gaulois, [269], [273]
L'Intransigeant, [95]
Le Journal, [466]
Le Petit Journal, [273]
Le Petit Parisien, [247]
La Presse, [405]
Paris-Journal, [300]
Le Temps, [88], [93], [273], [412]
Le Matin, [189], [217], [231-235], [239-241], [256], [259-261], [274], [284-286], [300], [301], [310], [316], [317], [318-326], [343], [415]
Madagascar, [81]
Madrid, [60]
Maeterlinck, [66]
Marchand, Major, [86], [87], [90], [91], [93], [94], [96], [97], [100-102]
Mars, Mlle., [39], [40]
Massenet, [43], [47], [48], [73], [101], [409]
Mediterranean, [97]
Meissonier, [21], [25], [30], [33]
Méline, [74], [84], [87], [88]
Menelik, Emperor, [87]
Mercier, General, [88]
Metternich, Prince, [104]
Metternich, Princess, [40]
Meudon Observatory, [132]
Mexico, [40]
Michelangelo, [44]
Molière, [52]
Monaco, [236]
Monod, [12]
Monson, Sir Edmund, [93], [94], [98-101]
Montmartre, [39], [46]
Mont Valerien, [89]
Morgue, [52]
Morny, Duc de, [40], [41], [430]
Morocco, [102], [105]
Moscow, [5], [28]
Mozart, [7], [85]
Mulhausen, [18], [24]
Muravieff, Count, [96], [97]
Mürger, [39]
Musset, A. de, [39]
Napoleon I., [3], [4], [11], [13], [16], [70], [75], [76], [83], [235]
Napoleon III., [40], [41], [83], [430]
Nancy, [12]
Nattier, [59]
Négrier, General de, [92]
New York, [33]
Nicholas II. (Czar), [67], [72], [102], [128]
Niger, [104]
Nile, [86], [91], [92], [98], [100], [104]
Notre Dame (Paris), [33], [61]
Nouveau Cercle, [41]
Nubar Pasha, [92]
Offenbach, [39], [56]
Omdurman, [90], [91]
Opéra, [37], [69], [73]
Opéra Comique, [48], [101]
Oppert, Julius, [56]
Orinoco, [4]
Orleans, Duke of, [88], [93], [96], [103]
Orsay, d', [38], [40]
Pacific, [58]
Païva, La, [40]
Panama, [68], [127]
Pascal, [20], [52]
Pasteur, [34]
Patrie Française, League, [50], [102]
Pays, Mme., [87]
Père Lachaise, [39]
Peterhof, 72
Petit Saint Bernard, [71]
Peytral, [87]
Picquart, Colonel, [84], [85], [93]
Popocatapetl, [4]
Poubelle, [60]
Pressensé, de, [88]
Punch, [97]
Puvis de Chavannes, [14]
Pyrenees, [46]
Rachel, Mlle., [40]
Racine, [7]
Raeburn, [59]
Raffet, [3]
Rambert, Eugène, [61]
Rameau, [7]
Red Sea, [86]
Récamier, Mme., [39]
Reinach, J., [117]
Roland, Mme., [426]
Rennes, [103]
Renan, [39], [43]
Revue des Deux Mondes, [102]
Reyer, [48], [49]
Renals, Sir Joseph, [69]
Reynolds, [59]
Ribot, [68], [87]
Robert, Hubert, [59]
Rochefort, [95], [430], [431]
Rodin, [44]
Roget, General, [127]
Rostand, E., [52]
Roujon, [75]
Ruskin, [23]
Russia, [6], [28], [60], [69], [72], [94], [96], [98]
Salisbury, Lord, [92], [104]
Salon, [74]
Sarrien, [87], [91]
Sasse, Marie, [40]
Saut du Doubs, [18]
Savoy, [71-73]
Sainte Chapelle, [23], [343]
Saint Cloud, [34], [40]
Saint Jean de Luz, [46]
Saint Petersburg, [69], [72], [96], [120]
Saint Vincent de Paul, [43]
Scheurer Kestner, [84]
Sem, [430]
Senegal, [86]
Sinaïa, [61]
Secrétan, [61]
Sobat, [100]
Strasburg, [23], [33]
Strauss, Richard, [66]
Sudan, [90], [92]
Sueh, [86]
Suez Canal, [34]
Sylva, Carmen, [61]
Talleyrand, [40], [41], [93], [104]
Tangiers, [105]
Tenniel, Sir John, [97]
Thiers, [13], [39]
Tornielli, [127]
Tuileries, [40]
Turner, [59]
Ubanghi, Upper, [86]
Urusoff, Prince, [102]
Venice, [114]
Verlaine, [374]
Versailles, [68], [127]
Victor, Prince Napoleon, [96], [103]
Victoria, Queen, [34], [69], [76], [92]
Viollet, le Duc, [6]
Voguë, de, [52]
Voltaire, [52]
Wadi-Halfa, [86]
Wagner, [7]
Waldeck-Rousseau, [128]
Waterloo, [76]
Watteau, [58]
Wattignies, [68]
Witte, Count, [94]
Zola, [50-52], [85], [87], [88]
Zurlinden, General, [90-92]