Front matter
Reading edition
MY MEMOIRS
MADAME STEINHEIL Photo by Claude Harris, London
MY MEMOIRS
BY MARGUERITE STEINHEIL
ILLUSTRATED
New York STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY 1912
Copyright 1912 By STURGIS & WALTON COMPANY —— Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1912
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
IChildhood1
IIYouth—My Father's Death—My Marriage15
IIIArrival in Paris. A Separation. Marthe. Parisian Life29
IVMy Salon38
VMy Salon (continued)54
VIFélix Faure68
VIIThe Dreyfus Affair—Fashoda84
VIIIThe Mysterious Pearl Necklace—The Death of Félix Faure106
IXAfter President Faure's Death: the Documents—The Necklace116
X1899-1908127
XIEvents that Preceded the Crime135
XIIMay 1908149
XIIIThe Fatal Night160
XIVAfter the Murder173
XVThe Black Gowns195
XVIInvestigations208
XVIIThe Throne-Room221
XVIIIM. Charles Sauerwein and the Rossignol Affair236
XIXThe Pearl in the Pocket-book249
XXThe So-Called "Night of the Confession" (November 25-26, 1908)269
XXIMy Arrest286
XXIIThe Three Cells294
XXIIIAlba Ghirelli, Marguerite Rosselli and the "Matin"310
XXIVSaint-Lazare330
XXVThe "Instruction"342
XXVIThe Last "Instruction"362
XXVIIThree Hundred and Fifty-Three Days in Prison374
XXVIIIThree Hundred and Fifty-Three Days in Prison (continued)398
XXIXThe Trial416
XXXThe Speech for the Prosecution—The Speech for the Defence437
XXXIAfter the Verdict456
XXXIIConclusion474
INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS
Madame SteinheilFrontispiece
FACING PAGE
Writing my Memoirs1
My Father16
My Mother16
Bonnat—by Himself44
My Daughter and Myself in 190160
President Félix Faure72
A Letter sent me by Félix Faure78
The Félix Faure Talisman82
The Gold Box in which President Faure sent me the Pearl Necklace110
Invitation to the Félix Faure "In Memoriam Service"116
My Husband, M. Steinheil, in 1898122
A letter sent me by Massenet in 1907132
Facsimile of the letter I sent to my Mother at Beaucourt a few days before the Crime150
A view of the verandah of the house in the Impasse Ronsin162
The Bed on which I was bound during the "Fatal Night"166
The Desk in the Boudoir from which the Money and the dummy-parcel of Documents were stolen on May 30-31182
A view of the House in the Impasse Ronsin224
M. de Balincourt and Remy Couillard252
Alexandre Wolff and his Mother, Mariette Wolff262
M. André, my Examining Magistrate348
My Cell, showing Juliette, my fellow prisoner, seated on her bed382
In the prison yard at Saint-Lazare386
Objects I used in Prison410
My Counsel, Maître A. Aubin; The Judge, M. de Valles; and the Advocate General, M. Trouard Riolle450
Plan of the first floor of the house in the Impasse Ronsin479
Photo. by Claude Harris, London WRITING MY MEMOIRS
