The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire. Edward Legge

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       Edward Legge

      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

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066231392

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

       I.

       II.

       III.

       IV.

       V.

       VI.

       VII.

       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)

       INDEX

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      It is due to the readers of “The Empress Eugénie: 1870–1910,” that they should know how that volume was received by the British and American Press. Leading critics like Mr. Courtney, “Daily Telegraph”; Mr. Richard Whiteing, “Manchester Guardian”; and Mr. Tighe Hopkins, “Daily Chronicle,” devoted much space to their analyses of the volume, as did the able reviewers of the work in the “Morning Post,” “Daily Mail,” “Evening Standard,” “Scotsman,” “Illustrated London News,” “Observer,” “Athenæum,” “Church Times,” “Catholic Times,” “Onlooker,” and many other influential and widely-circulated journals. Two editions were exhausted in this country and the United States. A remarkable, and severely-critical, article appeared in “La Grande Revue” (Paris), from the pen of the celebrated author and publicist, M. Gérard Harry, a strong anti-Bonapartist, who deprecated what he considered the excessive praise bestowed upon the Empress Eugénie. I had a distinctly “good Press,” and to that fact I attribute the success of the work, a French edition of which will be issued by the eminent Paris firm of Pierre Lafitte et Cie. The written words of Napoleon III., hurriedly jotted down at the hazard of the pen on his way from Sedan to Wilhelmshöhe; of General Fleury by the side of the captive; of the Empress, and those about her, addressed to Mgr. Goddard—all these documents, it was agreed by the Press, threw new light upon the period of the Second Empire.

      One of several appreciative American critics did not appear quite satisfied with the evidence authenticating the Empress’s “Case,” the elaborate