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Edward Legge. The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire
The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHAPTER I. THE EMPRESS’S GIRLHOOD
CHAPTER II. THE BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF NAPOLEON III
CHAPTER III. FROM LONDON TO HAM VIÂ BOULOGNE
CHAPTER IV. COURTSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT
CHAPTER V. CÆSAR’S WIFE
CHAPTER VI. APOGEE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
CHAPTER VII. TWO EMPRESSES
CHAPTER VIII. THE TUILERIES
CHAPTER IX. FONTAINEBLEAU
CHAPTER X. COMPIÈGNE
CHAPTER XI. THE FOREIGN LEGION; AND SOME GREAT LADIES
CHAPTER XII. THE SOVEREIGNS’ WAR DESPATCHES
CHAPTER XIII. WHAT OUR EYES HAVE SEEN
CHAPTER XIV. ON THE EVE OF EXILE
CHAPTER XV “THESE THINGS ARE LITTLE; BUT, THEN, THEY’RE ALL”
CHAPTER XVI. THE EMPEROR AND THE COMTESSE DE MERCY-ARGENTEAU
CHAPTER XVII. THE EMPEROR’S CORRESPONDENCE
CHAPTER XVIII. CITIZEN—PRESIDENT—EMPEROR
CHAPTER XIX. THE PALE EMPEROR
CHAPTER XX. THE EMPEROR’S COLLABORATOR
CHAPTER XXI. FINANCING THE EMPEROR AND “THE CAUSE”
CHAPTER XXII. THE MAN WHO GAVE THE WARNING
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VIII
CHAPTER XXIII. PRINCE NAPOLEON. The Empress in 1910–11
The Marriage at Moncalieri
The Home
The Idyll
The Family
The Empress Eugénie: 1910–11
THE PRINCE IMPERIAL (THE POET LAUREATE’S SONNET)
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Edward Legge
Paris Society in the Sixties; Including Letters of Napoleon III., M. Pietri, and Comte de la Chapelle, and Portraits of the Period
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The Boulogne expedition was planned at Carlton Terrace in June, 1840. A steamer, the Edinburgh Castle, was purchased for the Prince, ostensibly for the use of “some gentlemen who wanted to cruise on the Scottish coast” (the name of the good ship seemed not altogether inappropriate). Guns were bought at Birmingham. Uniforms were brought over from the “Temple,” in Paris—all but the buttons; these were bought in London, and sewn on by Dr. Conneau! “Servants” were imported from France; they had all served in the army.
Between August 3 and August 5 the Edinburgh Castle made four trips to Boulogne. On the night of the 5th the vessel was anchored off Wimereux. All told, the imperial force numbered sixty-two, including thirty ex-soldiers (the “servants”). Ammunition, money, and horses were all taken safely across the Channel. And there was a live Eagle, symbolizing the return of “the other.” Money had been offered to the douaniers, who scorned the proffered bribes—a bad omen. The audacious conspirators went through Boulogne, shouting “Vive l’Empereur!” They tried to get the 42nd Line Regiment to “rise,” but the honest fellows turned deaf ears to the charmers. A detachment of that regiment attacked the conspirators. The Prince wanted to die at the foot of the Column of the Grande Armée, after “running-up” the imperial flag, but he was dragged away. Pursued by a handful of the National Guard, the conspirators took to their heels and made for the beach. The Prince and some of his friends jumped into the sea, hoping to regain “the lugger.” They were “shot down like ducks.” One was fatally wounded, another was drowned, others were badly hit. It was said that a bullet grazed the Prince “without hurting him.” Louis Napoleon, De Persigny, Dr. Conneau, and Mésonan were picked up by gendarmes, dragged into a boat, and taken to prison.
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