The Comedy & Tragedy of the Second Empire
- Subtitle
- 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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1. Front matter2. A NOTE.3. PREFACE4. CHAPTER I THE EMPRESS’S GIRLHOOD5. CHAPTER II THE BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF NAPOLEON III6. CHAPTER III FROM LONDON TO HAM VIÂ BOULOGNE7. CHAPTER IV COURTSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT8. CHAPTER V CÆSAR’S WIFE9. CHAPTER VI APOGEE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE10. CHAPTER VII TWO EMPRESSES11. CHAPTER VIII THE TUILERIES12. CHAPTER IX FONTAINEBLEAU13. CHAPTER X COMPIÈGNE14. CHAPTER XI THE FOREIGN LEGION; AND SOME GREAT LADIES15. CHAPTER XII THE SOVEREIGNS’ WAR DESPATCHES16. CHAPTER XIII WHAT OUR EYES HAVE SEEN17. CHAPTER XIV ON THE EVE OF EXILE18. CHAPTER XV “THESE THINGS ARE LITTLE; BUT, THEN, THEY’RE ALL”19. CHAPTER XVI THE EMPEROR AND THE COMTESSE DE MERCY-ARGENTEAU20. CHAPTER XVII THE EMPEROR’S CORRESPONDENCE21. CHAPTER XVIII CITIZEN—PRESIDENT—EMPEROR.22. CHAPTER XIX THE PALE EMPEROR23. CHAPTER XX THE EMPEROR’S COLLABORATOR24. CHAPTER XXI FINANCING THE EMPEROR AND “THE CAUSE”25. CHAPTER XXII THE MAN WHO GAVE THE WARNING26. CHAPTER XXIII PRINCE NAPOLEON The Empress in 1910-11.27. CHAPTER XXIII PRINCE NAPOLEON The Empress in 1910-11. (continued 2)28. THE PRINCE IMPERIAL (THE POET LAUREATE’S SONNET)29. INDEX