INDEX

Adamovics, Fräulein Wilhelmina, viii, 107, 322, 326, 327, 329

Albert, Archduke, 134, 136, 138-140, 149, 152-155, 162, 192, 234, 242

Albert, Prince Consort, 135

Alençon, Sophie, Duchesse d’, under restraint at Graetz, 98, 169;

affianced to Ludwig II. of Bavaria, 161, 188;

photographed with Count Holnstein, 188;

the engagement broken off—married to Duc d’Alençon, 189;

her death, 161, 191

Alexander I., Czar of Russia, 2, 32, 57, 70

Ambert, General, Cinq Epées, 37

Amsterdam, 119

Andrassy, Count Julius, 146, 156, 210, 247

Andrews, Mrs. Clarence, 224

Anjou, Charles of, 20

Aroyo, Don Agostino, 253

Arragon, Ferdinand of, 23

Assassins, Les, ballet by Archduke John Salvator, 233

Augustenburg, Duchess of, 189

Augustine, Princess, 286, 292

Austria, a medley of races, not a nation, vi;

its history only to be understood in conjunction with the personality of its sovereign, vi, vii;

its position in the Holy Roman Empire, 2;

the formation of the Empire its chief problem, 4;

a Teuton Power when Francis Joseph commenced his reign—its Italian provinces, 7;

opposed to the liberal ideas of the period, 33;

all its statesmen policemen at heart, 34;

the revolution in Lombardy, 36-38;

the popular demand for a constitution, 40;

risings in Vienna, 41;

wonderfully favoured by accidents, 54;

bungling policy of, in connection with the Crimean War, 70;

at war with France and Italy, 123-130;

like all Germans, can only govern in a state of siege, 124, 125;

tortured her Italian subjects in prison, 125, 126;

an Italian’s opinions of, 126, 127;

at war with Prussia, 134-137;

surrenders Venetia to Italy, 134;

her attitude in the Franco-Prussian War, 148-157;

her future not in Italy or Germany, but in the Balkans—occupies Bosnia, 158;

her coming troubles in the Balkan States, 342-346

Austrian Alpine Club, 125

Austrian Court of the Nineteenth Century, see Rumbold, Sir Horace

Bach, Alexander A., Baron von, 66

Baden, 162

Balfour, Jabez, 257

Baltazzi, Alexander, 201, 211, 214, 224

Baltazzi, Evelyn, 201

Baltazzi, Hector, 201

Ban of Croatia, the, see Jellaçiç, Baron Von

Barclay’s brewery, Marshal Haynau’s reception by the draymen at, 61-64

Barr, Robert, 219

Barrès, Maurice, 79

Batthyany, Elemar, 57

Batthyany, Louis, 57, 58

Bavaria, 155

Bazaine, Marshal, 173

Beck, Baroness von, on the cynicism of the Court during the Hungarian War, 59

Beckford, William, 190

Benedek, General, 135-142

Berlin, 134, 155

Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, interviews Frau Schratt on the rumour of the morganatic marriage of Francis Joseph, 109;

story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in, 219, 220

Berry, Duchesse de, 238

Bertha, Count Alexander von, 82

Berzeviczy, General, 263

Beust, F. F. von, 83, 155

Biarritz, 133, 264, 266

Bismarck, Prince, 68, 132, 133, 135, 140, 162, 272

Bohemia, 46, 51, 136, 155

Boigne, Mme. de, 88

Bomba, see Francis II., King of Naples

Bombelles, Count, 218

Bosnia, Austrian occupation of, 158

Brabant, Marie, Duchess of, 23

Bratfisch, coachman to the Crown Prince Rudolf, 219

Bruckenau, 266

Brussels, 63, 108, 197, 198, 294, 322

Buda-Pesth, 52, 53, 146, 161, 211, 239, 287

Buenos Ayres, 255

Burg, Charles, 71, 291;

see also Archduke Ferdinand Charles

Byron, Lord, 6;

Don Juan, 6

Cairo, 203

Calvi, Colonel, 126, 127

Capet, Hugues, 20

Cap Martin, 119, 264

Capua, Prince of, 237

Carlos, Don, 322

Castiglioni, Countess, 123

Castlereagh, Lord, 5

Caux, 266

Cavour, Count, 122, 123

Chaco, 255

Charles II. of Spain, 24

Charles III. of Spain, 21

Charles V., Emperor, 24

Charles X. of France, 6

Charles, Archduke, 24, 27

Charles, Duke of Parma, 317

Charles of Lichtenstein, 189

Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 36, 51, 122, 123, 130

Charles Ferdinand, Archduke, 241

Charles Louis, Archduke, brother of the Emperor, 48, 274, 301

Charles Salvator, Archduke, 278, 283

Charles the Bold of Burgundy, 23

Charlotte, Archduchess, wife of Archduke Maximilian: unpopularity in Venice, 127, 146, 165;

her ambition causes her to persuade Maximilian to accept the crown of Mexico, 165-167, 170;

seeks Napoleon’s influence over the pacte de famille, 169;

keeps up Maximilian’s spirits during the voyage, 172, 173;

returns to Europe to persuade Napoleon to leave the Army of Occupation in Mexico, 175-179;

her mind was already unhinged before she left Mexico, 177;

heard of Sadowa on her arrival—was not met at the station—Empress Eugénie came to call on her, 178;

her interview with Napoleon, 178, 179;

goes to her old home at Miramar, 179;

and thence to Rome, 179, 180;

suffers from mental alienation, 180-181;

taken back to Miramar, 181;

had occasional glimmerings of sanity, 185

Chotek, Countess Sophie, 293, 300, 303-309, 311, 313

Christina, Archduchess, 27

Cinq Epées, see Ambert, General

Corona, 182

Corriera della Sera, Count Nigra’s account of the Crown Prince Rudolf’s death in, 221

Cracow, 233

Crenneville, Count, 137, 138

Crimean War, 70

Cristina, Queen of Spain, 238

Cromer, 119

Custozza, 37, 51, 134, 234

Czanadez, Marshal, 248, 249

Czuber, Fräulein, 288-291

Daily Mail on Baron Ernest Wallburg, 287

Darwin, Chas., 11

Deák, Ferencz, 83, 144

Diaz, Porfirio, 174, 182

Domenech, Emmanuel, History of Mexico, 173

Eclair, L’, account of the Meyerling tragedy in, 223

Eitel Fritz, Prince, 298, 301

Eleanor, Archduchess, 288

Eleanor of Austria, wife of Francis I. of France, 26

Elisa, the circus-rider, 97

Elizabeth, Archduchess, at the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 48;

sets her cap at Francis Joseph, 86;

burned to death at Schönnbrunn, 192

Elizabeth, Archduchess, daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf, 293, 294, 297-299, 301

Elizabeth, Empress, wife of Francis Joseph, making love to Elemar Batthyany, 58;

the tragedy of her death at Geneva, 60;

not trained for her position—stories of her early years, 73;

her first meeting with Francis Joseph—his proposal, 74;

her betrothal, 75;

the marriage a failure, 77;

the impenetrability of her character—her melancholy, 79;

her beauty and popularity with all classes, 80, 82;

factors in their estrangement, 81;

a valuable asset in the government of the Empire, 81-83;

did not get on with her mother-in-law, nor with the Archduchess Elizabeth, 86;

her free-and-easy manners, 87;

her instructions to Countess Marie Larisch, whom she chose to live with her as confidante, 90;

her name coupled with that of Count Hunyadi, 91;

her adieux with Capt. Middleton, 93;

comes to Countess Marie’s bedroom at night to dissuade her from marrying Count N.

Esterhazy, 93;

her own experiences allegorised in a fairy-tale, 94, 95;

her roving disposition, her melancholy and cynicism, 96;

her attention to the toilette, and daring horsemanship, 97;

the insanity in her family, 97, 98;

The Martyrdom of an Empress, an untrustworthy life of her, 99-105;

never used a gun—yachting in the Ionian Islands, 101;

not at all musical—never rode alone, 102;

introduces Frau Schratt to the Emperor, 104, 105, 109, 110;

supposed reasons for her trip to Madeira, 116, 117;

her indifference as to the training of the Crown Prince, 116;

her constant wanderings and ceremonial appearances at Court, 116-119;

specimens of her poetic pessimism, 119, 120;

her popularity in Hungary helped the settlement, 143, 144;

her murder, 162;

refuses to believe her brother Ludwig mad—suggests a plan for his escape, 190;

did not believe him dead, 191;

said to have written reminiscences, 260;

her outlook on life and her religious beliefs, 261, 262;

M. Paoli’s account of her when in France, 263-265;

omens preceding her assassination, 265-267;

stabbed at Geneva, 268

Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint, 83

Elizabeth, Princess, granddaughter of the Emperor, 292-293

Elizabeth, Princess, of Bavaria, see Elizabeth, Empress

Ernest, Archduke, 239

Escobedo, 182

Essays and Reviews, 259

Esterhazy, Félicie, 41

Esterhazy, Count Nicholas, 93, 120, 143

Esterhazy, Valentine, 70

Eugéne, Archduke, 278, 279, 283

Eugénie, Empress, 118, 152, 178, 264

Faucigny-Lucinge, Mme., 240, 241

Faye, M. Jacques La, his life of the Empress, 99

Federal Assembly, the, 3

Ferdinand, Emperor, uncle of Francis Joseph, 22;

his character, 42, 46;

his abdication, 47-51

Ferdinand, King of Bulgaria, 318

Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 220, 221, 323

Ferdinand VI. of Spain, 24

Ferdinand Charles, Archduke, 288-291, 301

Ferdinand of Este, Archduke, 47, 48

Ferenzy, Mdlle., 103

France, war with, 123-130

Francis I. of France, 26

Francis II., Emperor, grandfather of Francis Joseph, 21, 22

Francis II., King of Naples, 6, 125

Francis Charles, Archduke, father of Francis Joseph, 22, 29, 48, 49, 69

Francis Ferdinand, Archduke, 269, 288, 293, 300;

nephew to the Emperor—delicate boy and grew up delicate, 301;

educated amongst Jesuits—medical treatment has its effect on him, 302;

is expected to marry Archduchess Gabrielle, 303;

but was courting a lady-in-waiting, Countess Sophie Chotek, 303-305;

Archduchess Isabella’s discovery of their affection, 305, 306;

the Emperor sanctions the marriage as a morganatic one, 305;

the Archduke’s oath, 309;

possible ways of evading it, 311-313;

his plan for settlement of Balkan troubles, 344-346;

his morganatic marriage stands in the way of the natural succession after him, 348, 349

Francis Joseph I., Emperor of Austria, materials for a full biography not available, viii;

short-comings essential to previous biographies, viii-x;

the difficulties with which he was met on ascending the throne, 3;

the formation of the Austrian Empire the central problem of his reign, 4;

the risings in Italy and Hungary in the beginning of his reign, 7;

his present popularity, 7, 8;

to be considered both as Emperor and Habsburg, 8, 9, 18;

the only sane member of the family, 15, 16;

the tragedies of his position, 17, 18;

his ancestors, 20-22;

and collateral branches of the family, 23-26;

ascends the throne at eighteen, the rising hope of a decadent family, 22;

his birth and parentage, 29;

his education and love for his people, 30;

his first engagement with the army, 37, 38;

his return to his studies, 38;

at his uncle’s abdication, 48;

succeeds to the throne, 49;

the impression he had made in Hungary on an early visit did not insure popularity, 52;

was bound to follow the advice of Windischgraetz and Schwartzenberg, 52;

Hungarians refuse to recognise his authority till he takes the constitutional oath, 53;

cut in the hunting field by Elemar Batthyany—was he responsible for the atrocities of the Hungarian War? 58;

nicknamed at birth “the child of the gallows,” 64;

his affront to Napoleon III., 65;

and its result, 66, 123;

his travels through his dominions—releases political prisoners—an attempt on his life, 67;

Bismarck’s opinion of him, 68;

the King of Belgium’s, 68, 69;

Lady Westmorland’s description of him, 69;

his romantic marriage, 71-76;

first sees the Princess Elizabeth by accident, 73;

his proposal, 74;

their betrothal, 75;

his marriage a failure, 77;

the obviousness of his personality, 78, 79;

the happiness of his early married days, 80, 81;

factors in their estrangement, 81;

he comes to visit the Empress whilst she is saying adieu to Capt. Middleton, 92;

his rooms far from those of the Empress, 92;

his flirtations make no startling tale, 104;

his friendship with Frau Schratt, 104-113;

his love of field sports, 113-115;

story of his attentions to a peasant girl, 116;

at war with France and Italy, 123-130;

summons Sardinia to disarm, 124;

took part himself in the war, 128, 129;

his sullenness over the terms of peace, 129, 130;

Italian hatred of him, 131;

refuses Italy’s offer to buy Venetia, 133;

Offers to cede Venetia if Italy will leave him free to deal with Prussia—has to surrender it as result of the defeat at Sadowa, 134;

his treatment of General Benedek, 135-141;

sends for Deák, 144;

and comes to terms with Hungary, 144, 145;

his coronation at Buda-Pesth, 145, 146;

he was stronger after Sadowa than before, 146;

in negotiation with Napoleon on the Triple Alliance, 149;

and with Victor Emmanuel, 150;

in public affairs has the luck which saves him from his blunders, 160;

in private is spared no sorrows, 161-163;

his attitude as head of the family to Maximilian’s acceptance of the throne of Mexico, 167-171;

helpless to aid Maximilian, 180;

he might excuse himself had he taken no steps to aid him, 183, 184;

but he did all he could without avail, 184-186;

rumour that he was father of Mary Vetsera, 229;

his reception of the news of the Meyerling tragedy, 230;

his displeasure with Archduke John Salvator, 236, 242, 243;

his last communication with him, 248;

sends a cruiser to search the coast of Chili for John Orth, 254;

sometimes visited the Empress at Cap Martin, 264;

his reception of the news of the Empress’s death, 269-271;

his varying attitude to morganatic marriages, and marriages between the Habsburgs and commoners, 286-293;

permits the marriage of Princess Stéphanie to Count Lonyay, 294-296;

and of her daughter Elizabeth to Otto von Windischgraetz, 297-299;

his anxiety for his nephew, Francis Ferdinand to marry, 303;

he sanctions the marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek as morganatic—his speech to the Privy Council, 307, 308;

he retains more mediæval ideas than any ruler of to-day, 309, 310;

his interview with Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 328;

his long reign and great age, 341;

his unique reign, 350

Francis Joseph I., His Life and Times, see Mahaffy, R. P.

Francois Joseph Intime, see Weindel, H. de

Franco-Prussian War, 148-157

Frederick, Archduke, 303, 305

Frederick IV., Emperor, 23

Frederick August, King of Saxony, 319

Frederick the Great, 21, 32, 57

Frederick, Landgrave of Furstenberg, 48

“Fried Fish,” see Bratfisch

Frossard, General, 153, 169

Fugger, Countess, 337

Gabrielle, Archduchess, 303, 304

Galippe, Dr., L’hérédité des Stigmates de Dégénérescence, 10, 12, 13

Geneva, 60, 267

Georgei, 54

German Federation, the, 3, 132, 134

Giornale d’Italia, Victor Emmanuel’s letter to Napoleon in, 150

Giron, M., 322, 332-334, 336

Gisela, Archduchess, daughter of Francis Joseph, 101, 102, 107, 286, 292

Gladstone, W. E., 126, 160

Gödöllo, 90

Graber, Captain, 56

Graetz, 98, 138, 140

Gramont, Duc de, 154, 155

Greece, Isles of, 119

Grunne, Count, 48

Guizot, F. P. G., 35, 36, 40

Habsburg, House of, its characteristics essential to the understanding of Austrian history, vi, vii;

the eccentricities of its members, viii;

marriage of a daughter of, to Napoleon, 2;

eugenist’s opinions of, 10-13;

revolt from family traditions, 14, 15;

the effect upon the head of the house, 16-19;

their origin and pedigree, 20-23;

inter-marriages with the Spanish and Portuguese branches, 23-25;

physical characteristics, 26, 27;

some members have justified their liaisons by the Emperor’s friendship with Frau Schratt, 107;

recent tragedies in the family, 161, 162;

the difference between their madness and that of the Wittelsbachs, 188;

some of the family who have tried to be ordinary men, 273;

the only characteristic common to them all, 282;

their centrifugal marriages, 284-286;

their superiority to the rest of mankind, 309;

what will be the future of the house? 347

Habsburg Monarchy, The, see Steed, H. W.

Halbthurn, 305

Halévy, Leon, M. et Madame Cardinal, 202, 211

Haynau, Marshal, the cruelties of his campaign in Hungary, 55-60;

his command withdrawn from him, 61;

his adventure at Barclay’s brewery, 61-63

Heiligenkreuz, Abbey of, 215

Heinrich, Herr, 249, 251

Helen, Princess, of Bavaria, afterwards Princess of Thurn and Taxis, 72-75, 98, 100

Henrietta, consort of Leopold II., King of the Belgians, 197, 286

Henry, Archduke, 238, 276

Hoffmann, Leopoldine, 238, 276

Hohenlohe Schillingfürst, Prince Gottfried zu, 288

Holnstein, Count, 188, 189

Holy Alliance, the, 3-5

Holy Roman Empire, its collapse, 1;

the impossibility of reviving it, 2

Hoyos, Count, 218, 230

Hübner, Count, his amazement that anyone should value nationality, 34, 35;

his account of Metternich’s resignation, 43;

his account of the proceedings at Ferdinand’s abdication, 47-49

Hungarian War (1849), 54-60

Hungary, 40, 45, 46, 51, 53-58, 82, 83, 143-147, 156, 160, 211, 225

Hunyadi, Count, 91

Iglau, 322

In-breeding, results of, 13-15

Indépendance Belge on M. Leopold Wulfing (Archduke Leopold Ferdinand), 330, 331

Ionian Islands, 101

Isabella, Archduchess, 297, 303-306

Ischl, 73, 103, 108, 266

Italy, War with, 123-130;

offers to buy Venetia, 132;

Venetia surrendered to, 134

Jarras, 153

Jecker, Baron, 165

Jellaçiç, Baron von, Ban of Croatia, 46, 48, 52, 54

Joanna the Mad, 23, 24

John, Archduke, 21, 238

John, Field-Marshal Baron, 139

John Salvator, Archduke of Tuscany, afterwards John Orth, viii, 15, 71, 107, 162, 210;

the first of the family rebels, a man of many accomplishments, 232;

his musical compositions and military pamphlets, 233;

his liberalism, 234;

his close friendship with the Crown Prince, 234, 235;

Countess Marie Larisch’s account of his parting with her, 235;

account by Princess Louisa of Tuscany, 235, 236, 252;

his love affairs with an Englishwoman, 236-239;

and with Milly Stübel, 240-243;

his interview with the Emperor, 242, 243;

had he been plotting with Rudolf? 244-247;

the uncertainty of his marriage with Milly Stübel, 247, 248;

the Emperor’s last communication with him, 248;

his farewell to his friends, 248-251;

his last voyage, 253;

was he lost at sea? 254;

legends of his being seen since, 255-257

Johnson, Andrew, President of the United States, 174

Joseph II., Emperor, 21, 31

Joseph, Archduke, 48, 162, 278, 292

Juarez, Benito, 174, 182, 183, 185

Karolyi, Countess, her curse on Francis Joseph, 60, 68, 71, 76, 122, 142, 161, 186

Keystone of Empire, The, v

Kisch, Baron, 108

Kissingen, 119, 266

Kloss, Alfons von, 288

Kölner Zeitung on Austrian cruelty in Hungary, 58

Kossuth, L., 40, 50

Ladislas, Archduke, 162, 192

Laeken, 197

Lainz, 266

Larisch, Countess Marie, more in the Empress’s confidence than anyone else, 79;

a story of the Empress before she was her companion, 84;

says that the Emperor was the first to be dissatisfied with the marriage, 89;

the Empress’s instructions to her when she sent for her to be her companion, 90;

she prevents the Emperor from entering the Empress’s room whilst she is saying adieu to Capt. Middleton, 92;

she is asked in marriage by Count Nicholas Esterhazy, and the Empress dissuades her from accepting him, 93;

she repeats a fairy-tale told her by the Empress, 94, 95;

her corrections of The Martyrdom of an Empress, 100-103;

she tells of the Empress’s introduction of Frau Schratt to the Emperor, 104, 105, 109;

on the Empress’s indifference as to the training of the Crown Prince, 116;

her description of the difference between the madness of the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbachs, 188;

her account of the Meyerling tragedy, 194, 197, 204-207, 210, 214, 216, 217;

her refutation of an account of the tragedy in the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, 219, 220;

her own account, 223, 224;

her account of the Archduke John Sebastian’s farewell, 235, 253

Larisch, Countess Marie, My Past, v, 57, 84, 85, 90, 91, 97, 104, 105, 194, 197, 204-207, 210, 214, 216, 217, 235, 253

Latour, Austrian War Minister, 55

Laxenburg, 101, 298

Lebœuf, Marshal, 153

Lebrun, 153

Leipzig, Battle of the Nations at, 1

Leopold I., King of the Belgians, 68

Leopold II., Emperor, 21

Leopold II., King of the Belgians, 196, 197, 286, 294-296

Leopold, Archduke, 280

Leopold Ferdinand, Archduke, viii, 15, 71, 107, 129, 232, 252, 299, 315, 322, 327-332

L’hérédité des Stigmates de Dégénérescence, see Galippe, Dr.

Libenyi, attempts to assassinate the Emperor, 67, 80

Linz, 234

Lobkowitz, Prince, 48

Lombardy, 34, 38, 46, 125, 165

London, 119, 243, 247

L’Origine du Type familial de la Maison de Habsburg, see Rubbrecht, Dr. O.

Lorraine, Francis, Duke of, 20, 21

Loschek, valet to the Crown Prince Rudolf, 219, 221

Louis IX. of France (St. Louis), 20

Louis XIV., 341

Louis XVI., 278

Louis, Archduke, 43

Louis Philippe, 36

Louis Salvator, Archduke, 277, 283

Louis Victor, Archduke, brother of the Emperor, 180, 274

Louisa, Princess of Tuscany, viii, 15, 27, 129, 220, 222, 232, 235, 236, 239, 241, 242, 244, 251-255, 277, 299, 315-327, 332-340

Louisa, Princess of Tuscany, My Own Story, v, 318, 319

Louise, Princess, of Saxe-Coburg, 197, 256, 294, 321, 339

Luccheni assassinates the Empress Elizabeth, 268

Lucchesi-Palli, 238

Ludwig I. of Bavaria, 25, 72

Ludwig II., King of Bavaria, his madness, 72;

affianced to Sophie, afterwards Duchess d’Alençon, 161;

breaks off his engagement, 187-189;

smashes her bust, 189;

his solitary life in fantastic splendour—the Empress refused to believe in his

madness, and was ready to assist his escape, 190;

his suicide, 162, 191

Luxemburg, 149

Madersbach, Mme. de, 56

Madiera, 91, 116, 117

Magenta, Battle of, 66, 124

Mahaffy, R. P., Francis Joseph I., His Life and Times, v

Majorca, 277

Maria Dorothea, Archduchess, 48, 286

Maria Henrietta, Archduchess, 288

Maria Theresa, Empress, 20, 31, 57

Marianna, Empress, 47, 49

Marie of Burgundy, 26

Marie-Amélie, Queen, consort of Louis-Philippe, 177

Marie-Antoinette, 21

Marie Louise, Archduchess, wife of Napoleon I., 26

Martyrdom of an Empress, The, vi, 99-105

Mary I. of England, 24

Mathilde, Princess of Saxony, 196

Matilda, Archduchess, 162

Matilda, Duchess, in Bavaria, see Trani, Countess de

Mattatich, Count, 321

Maximilian, Archduke, brother of Francis Joseph, afterwards Emperor of Mexico, at the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 47, 48;

the tragedy of his death, 60, 161, 163, 164, 185;

his unpopularity in Venice, 127, 146, 165;

invited to be Emperor of Mexico, 164;

unfitted for post—the tool of Napoleon and the Mexican exiles—dismissed from his government of Venetia, 165:

retires to Miramar and writes poetry—egged on by his wife to accept the Mexican throne, 166;

stipulates for French military support, 167;

the pacte de famille, 167, 168;

he objects to renouncing his Austrian rights, 168;

the pacte signed at Miramar, 169, 170;

his gloomy forebodings, 170, 171;

Pius IX. blesses the enterprise, 171, 172;

his wife keeps up his spirits on the voyage, 172;

looking to the ceremonial aspect of the enterprise, and the disillusionment, 173;

French Army of Occupation withdrawn, 173, 175, 182;

nothing but pride prevented his abdication, 181;

exclaims that he is free when the French Army had gone—he goes to Queretaro and is captured, 182;

he had instructed Miramon to condemn Juarez to death, 183;

is shot in the public square at Queretaro, 185;

his body brought to Europe and buried in the tombs of the Habsburgs, 187

Maximilian I. of Bavaria, grandfather of Francis Joseph, 22, 29

Maximilian, Duke, in Bavaria, 72, 75, 100, 189

Mazzini, G., 344

Mélanie, Princess, see Metternich, Princess

Mendel, Henrietta, 188, 276

Mérode, Cléo de, 196, 286

Metternich, Clemens, Prince, the author of the Holy Alliance, 4;

instructs Francis Joseph in statecraft, 30;

a greater man than any whom he served, 32;

a policeman at heart, 34;

the object of popular hostility, 41;

his resignation, 42;

Archduchess Sophie’s letter to him, 44;

his reply—his flight to England, 45;

had been concerned in advising Ferdinand’s abdication, 47

Metternich, Princess Mélanie, 35, 36, 39-44, 50

Metternich, Count Richard, a special constable in London, 43, 155;

Austrian Ambassador in Paris, 155

Mexico, 60, 161, 163-186

Meyerling, 60, 93, 118, 161, 187, 194, 207, 208, 211-216, 218-231, 242, 245, 246, 266, 269

Middleton, Capt. “Bay,” 91

Miguel of Braganza, 203

Milan, 36, 128, 146

Minghetti, Marco, 152

Miramar, 165, 166, 169-171, 179, 181

Miramon, General, 182, 183

Moltke, Baron von, 136, 140

Montez, Lola, 25, 72

Morny, Comte de, 165

My Own Story, see Louisa, Princess of Tuscany

My Past, see Larisch, Countess Marie

Napoleon I., 2, 22, 24, 26, 27

Napoleon III., 43, 65, 66, 123-125, 128-130, 149-151, 154, 165, 167, 169, 171, 175, 177-179

Nash, Eveleigh, 247, 256, 257

Nauheim, 266

Neue Freie Presse, a bogus advertisement in its agony column, 108;

on the character of the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 327, 328

Nigra, Count, 156;

his account of the death of the Crown Prince Rudolf, 220-222, 224, 227

Norwegian Fiords, 119

Novara, 51

O’Donnell, 80

Olmütz, 44, 47, 153

Orleans, Duc d’, 286

Orleans, Duchess d’, see Maria Dorothea, Archduchess

Orth, John, see John Salvator, Archduke

Ott, Baron, 256

Otten, Frederick, 256

Otto, Archduke, 27, 280-282, 285, 288, 301

Otto, King of Bavaria, 25, 72

Paar, Count, 269

Palacio, Riva, 182

Palacky, F., his protest for the Slavs against their position as inferior to the Hungarians, 145

Palmerston, Lord, 54

Paoli, Xavier, 263-265, 267

Paris, 119, 153, 161, 191, 264

Parma, 327

Pedro, Dom, 319

Pedro of Saxe-Coburg, 189

Philip II. of Spain, 24

Philip III. of Spain, 24

Philip V. of Spain, 24

Philip of Saxe-Coburg, 197, 218

Philippe le Beau, 23

Pilsen, 153

Pius IX., 108, 111, 151, 169, 171, 172, 180

Pius X., 260

Plombières, 123

Podanitzky, Baron, 55

Port Said, 236

Possenhofen, 103

Prégny, 267

Presburg, 303

Private Life of Two Emperors, The, William II. of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria, vi, 245

Prussia, 4, 130-137, 148-157

Puebla, 177, 179

Queretaro, 60, 161, 163, 182, 183, 266

Radetzky, Marshal, 36-38, 45, 46, 80, 122, 136

Rainer, Archduke, 275, 276, 283

Regules, 182

Reichstadt, Duc de, 22

Revolution of 1848, the;

In Italy, 36-38, 45, 46, 51

In Austria, 39-42, 45, 46, 50-53

In Hungary, 40, 45, 46, 51, 54

In Germany, 40, 41

In Bohemia, 46, 51

Rio Quarto, 255

Ritter, Fräulein, 330

Robert, Duke of Parma, 317

Roll, Fräulein, 116

Rome, 60, 108, 151, 171, 180, 181, 306

Rothschild, Baroness Adolphe, 267

Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, 61

Rubbrecht, Dr. Oswald, L’Origine du Type familial de la Maison de Habsburg, 10-12

Rudolf, Archduke, 279

Rudolf, Crown Prince, reproaches Countess Marie Larisch for acting as go-between for the Empress, 90;

errors about, in The Martyrdom of an Empress, 101-103;

directed to write to General Benedek, 140;

his the only life between Maximilian and the throne of Austria, 168;

the fatality of the name Rudolf—his literary and artistic tastes, 193;

his quarrel with the German Emperor—conspiring for the throne of Hungary, 194, 206, 210;

capable of both affability and hauteur, 194, 195;

popular with the people, a spoiled child and precociously cynical, 195;

whilst seeking a wife had a lady as provisional companion travelling with him—rejects the suit of Princess Mathilde of Saxony and asks the hand of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, 196;

neglects her for Mary Vetsera, 200, 201;

whom he says he could not shake off, 203;

asks Countess Marie Larisch to bring Mary to him at the Hofburg, says he is in political danger, hands the Countess a steel casket, 204;

the person to whom it is to be delivered, 205;

his hunting box at Meyerling, 208;

the Princess taken there, 208, 209;

the Princess follows him when he goes to visit Mary Vetsera and changes his carriage for hers, 209;

his death, 60, 161, 212—

and the various official accounts, 212-214;

his last letter, 216;

various accounts of the tragedy, 218-231;

his association with Archduke John Salvator, 234, 235;

was the latter concerned in his death? 246

Rumbold, Sir Horace, The Austrian Court of the Nineteenth Century, v, 299

Ruskberg, 56

Russia, 156

Russo-Turkish War, 158

Saarbrücken, 154

Sadowa, Battle of, 134, 137, 144, 146, 151, 160, 174, 176, 179

Saint-Nazaire, 178

Salzburg, 254, 274, 321

San Remo, 266

Santa Lucia, Battle of, 37

Sardinia, 124, 129

Schleswig-Holstein, 125, 133

Schlictling, General, von, 136

Schönnbrunn, 29, 109, 192, 266, 341

Schratt, Frau Katti, 104-113, 162, 271, 289, 350

Schwartzenberg, Felix, 45, 47, 48, 52, 58

Seefried zu Buttenheim, Baron Otto von, 292, 293

Servia, and Austria’s Servian subjects, 159, 342-345

Siècle, Le, on Frau Schratt’s mission to Rome, 108

Slav problem not solved by the granting of the Hungarian Constitution, 145, 158

Smith, Penny, 237

Sobieski, John, King of Poland, 70

Sodich, Captain, 253

Solferino, Battle of, 66, 124

Sophia, Archduchess, mother of Francis Joseph, 22, 29;

her letter to Metternich on his resignation, 44;

her concern in securing the throne for her son on his uncle’s abdication, 22, 47, 48;

the names of murdered Hungarians shouted at her in the streets, 59;

her strange declaration during her confinement with Francis Joseph, 64;

arranges for her son’s marriage, 71-73;

her disappointment, 76;

her jealousy of the Empress, 86;

she is charged with throwing a mistress at the head of her son, and a lover to the Empress, 89;

had the care of Archduchess Gisela when a child, 101;

objects to the Empress’s training of the Crown Prince, 116;

sides with Maximilian over the pacte de famile, 168, 169;

her warning to Maximilian, 177

Starnberg, Lake of, 162, 190

Starztay, Countess, 261, 269

Steed, H. W., The Habsburg Monarchy, v.

Stéphanie, Princess of Belgium, wife of the Crown Prince Rudolf, 196-200, 203, 208-210;

her marriage to Count Lonyay, 293-297

Stockau, Count George, 201, 214, 215

Stübel, Fräulein Milly, 107, 240-243, 247, 253

Taaffe, Count von, 43

Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, The Lord of Burleigh, 88

Thurn and Taxis, Prince of, 75

Princess of, see Helen, Princess of Bavaria

Tichborne, Sir Roger, 257

Times, The, confirms the reports of Austrian cruelty in Hungary, 55;

prints Rothschild’s letter on the Haynau affair at Barclay’s, 61;

and rebukes the draymen, 62

Tisza, M., 230

Toselli, Signor, 27, 232, 239, 241, 315, 331, 336-340

Trani, Ludwig Count de, 162, 192

Trani, Matilda, Countess de, 108, 162

Trentino, The, 150, 151, 344

Trieste, 101, 116, 180, 236, 255

Triple Alliance, The, 149-151, 155, 156

Turkey, Sultan of, 57

Turr, General, 150

Tyrol, 51

United States, President of, see Johnson, Andrew

Valérie, Archduchess, daughter of Francis Joseph, 101, 102, 107

Valois, Charles de, 20

Valparaiso, 253, 255

Vaughan, Baroness, 196

Venetia, 125, 130, 133, 134, 151, 165

Venice, 127, 146, 165

Ventnor, 119

Vetsera, Baroness, 201-203, 211, 229

Vetsera, Ferenz, 220

Vetsera, Laszlo, 220

Vetsera, Louis, 220

Vetsera, Mary, did not meet the Crown Prince in London as the author of The Martyrdom of an Empress, says, 102, 103;

died with him at Meyerling, 200;

belonged to a family well known in Vienna, 201;

her character, had started her acquaintance with Rudolf by writing asking him to see her, insulted the Crown Princess, 203;

Rudolf asked the Countess Marie Larisch to bring her to him at the Hofburg, 205;

which she did, 206;

she was taken by Rudolf to Meyerling, 207;

a former occasion on which the Prince had visited her, 209;

her belief that Rudolf would become King of Hungary and marry her, her parents seeking for her, 211;

her death with Rudolf, 213;

theories about the tragedy, 213-215;

her last letters, 216;

her reputed part in the tragedy, 222-227

Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 51, 122, 123, 128, 131, 149-152

Vienna, 41, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 108, 136, 169, 183, 184, 192, 198, 208, 212, 219, 229, 234, 251, 253, 254, 266, 274, 276, 288

Vienna, Congress of (1814-15), 1, 4

Visconti-Venosta, Marquis, 152

Waldeck, Countess of, 238

Walburg, Baron Ernest, 287

Waterloo, Battle of, 1

Weindel, H. de, François Joseph Intime, v, 117

Wellington, Duke of, 63

Wiederhofer, Dr., 214, 223

Wiener Zeitung on General Benedek, 138;

on the degradation of Princess Louisa of Tuscany, 323, 324

William I., King of Prussia, 133, 152, 194

William, Archduke, 279

William Francis Charles, Archduke, 161

Windischgraetz, Alfred von, 46-48, 52, 53, 88, 298

Windischgraetz, Prince Ernest von, 299

Windischgraetz, Prince Otto von, 293, 297-299

Wittelsbach, House of, family to which the Archduchess Sophia and the Empress Elizabeth belonged, insanity in both branches of it, 72;

which are madder, they or the Habsburgs? 187;

the difference in description, 188;

Ludwig II., 188-191;

Duchesse d’Alençon, 191;

Comte de Trani, Archduke Ladislas, Archduchess Elizabeth, 192

Wörth, 152

Wulfling, Herr, see Leopold Ferdinand Archduke

Zurich, 162

BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS BY FRANCIS GRIBBLE.

MADAME DE STAEL AND HER LOVERS. [8]GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS. ROUSSEAU AND THE WOMEN HE LOVED. CHATEAUBRIAND AND HIS COURT OF WOMEN. THE PASSIONS OF THE FRENCH ROMANTICS. THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF LORD BYRON. RACHEL: HER STAGE LIFE AND HER REAL LIFE. THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY. THE COMEDY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. ROMANCES OF THE FRENCH THEATRE. THE TRAGEDY OF ISABELLA II. THE COURT OF CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND THE LATER ADVENTURES OF THE QUEEN IN EXILE.