The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire
by Edward Legge
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About this eBook
- Author
- Legge, Edward, -1927
- Title
- 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
- Credits
- Produced by Chuck Greif, ellinora and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DC: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: France, Andorra, Monaco
- Subject
- Eugénie, Empress, consort of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1826-1920
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 57554
- Release Date
- July 20, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE COMEDY & TRAGEDY OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
- 2.A NOTE.
- 3.PREFACE
- 4.CONTENTS
- 5.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 6.CHAPTER I THE EMPRESS’S GIRLHOOD
- 7.CHAPTER II THE BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF NAPOLEON III
- 8.CHAPTER III FROM LONDON TO HAM VIÂ BOULOGNE
- 9.CHAPTER IV COURTSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT
- 10.CHAPTER V CÆSAR’S WIFE
- 11.CHAPTER VI APOGEE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
- 12.CHAPTER VII TWO EMPRESSES
- 13.CHAPTER VIII THE TUILERIES
- 14.CHAPTER IX FONTAINEBLEAU
- 15.CHAPTER X COMPIÈGNE
- 16.CHAPTER XI THE FOREIGN LEGION; AND SOME GREAT LADIES
- 17.CHAPTER XII THE SOVEREIGNS’ WAR DESPATCHES
- 18.CHAPTER XIII WHAT OUR EYES HAVE SEEN
- 19.CHAPTER XIV ON THE EVE OF EXILE
- 20.CHAPTER XV “THESE THINGS ARE LITTLE; BUT, THEN, THEY’RE ALL”
- 21.CHAPTER XVI THE EMPEROR AND THE COMTESSE DE MERCY-ARGENTEAU
- 22.CHAPTER XVII THE EMPEROR’S CORRESPONDENCE
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII CITIZEN—PRESIDENT—EMPEROR.
- 24.CHAPTER XIX THE PALE EMPEROR
- 25.CHAPTER XX THE EMPEROR’S COLLABORATOR
- 26.CHAPTER XXI FINANCING THE EMPEROR AND “THE CAUSE”
- 27.CHAPTER XXII THE MAN WHO GAVE THE WARNING — I. — II. — III. — IV. — V. — VI. — VII. — VIII.
- 28.CHAPTER XXIII PRINCE NAPOLEON The Empress in 1910-11. — The Marriage at Moncalieri. — The Home. — The Idyll. — The Family. — The Empress Eugénie : 1910-11.
- 29.THE PRINCE IMPERIAL (THE POET LAUREATE’S SONNET)
- 30.INDEX
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