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France from behind the veil

France from behind the veil

by Princess Catherine Radziwill

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Author
Radziwill, Catherine, Princess, 1858-1941
Title
France from Behind the Veil: Fifty Years of Social and Political Life
Credits
Produced by Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images available at The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
Subject
France -- Politics and government -- 1852-1870
Category
Text
Project Gutenberg
eBook-No. 61359
Release Date
February 9, 2020
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.France from Behind the Veil: Fifty Years of Social and Political Life
  2. 2.PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS — France from Behind the Veil
  5. 5.CHAPTER I Last Days of the Empire: Napoleon and Eugénie
  6. 6.CHAPTER II The Surroundings and Friends of the Sovereigns
  7. 7.CHAPTER III Fontainebleau and Compiègne
  8. 8.CHAPTER IV Political Men of the Time
  9. 9.CHAPTER V Before the Storm
  10. 10.CHAPTER VI The Disaster
  11. 11.CHAPTER VII Letters from Paris during the Siege
  12. 12.CHAPTER VIII The Commune
  13. 13.CHAPTER IX M. Thiers
  14. 14.CHAPTER X The Comte de Chambord and His Party
  15. 15.CHAPTER XI The Orleans Princes
  16. 16.CHAPTER XII The Duc d’Aumale and Chantilly
  17. 17.CHAPTER XIII The Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIV Two Great Ministers
  19. 19.CHAPTER XV Paris Society under the Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
  20. 20.CHAPTER XVI A Few Prominent Parisian Hostesses
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVII Madame Juliette Adam
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII A Few Literary Men
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIX The 16th of May and the Fall of Marshal MacMahon
  24. 24.CHAPTER XX Leon Gambetta
  25. 25.CHAPTER XXI The Adventure of General Boulanger
  26. 26.CHAPTER XXII The Panama Scandal
  27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII Two Presidents
  28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV Imperial and Presidential Visits
  29. 29.CHAPTER XXV The French Press
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI The Presidency of M. Loubet
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII The Dreyfus Affair
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII Parisian Salons under the Third Republic
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX The Present Tone of Paris Society
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXX M. Fallières as President
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI M. Briand and the Socialists
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXXII A Few Literary Men of the Present Day
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIII A Few Foreign Diplomats
  38. 38.L’ENVOI
  39. 39.INDEX

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