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

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	THE EMPRESS’S GIRLHOOD	1
II.	THE BOYHOOD AND YOUTH OF NAPOLEON III.	7
III.	FROM LONDON TO HAM VIÂ BOULOGNE	18
IV.	COURTSHIP AND ENGAGEMENT	29
V.	CÆSAR’S WIFE	49
VI.	APOGEE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE	70
VII.	TWO EMPRESSES	90
VIII.	THE TUILERIES	99
IX.	FONTAINEBLEAU	113
X.	COMPIÈGNE	127
XI.	THE FOREIGN LEGION; AND SOME GREAT LADIES	137
XII.	THE SOVEREIGNS’ WAR DESPATCHES	165
XIII.	WHAT OUR EYES HAVE SEEN	204
XIV.	ON THE EVE OF EXILE	223
XV.	“THESE THINGS ARE LITTLE; BUT, THEN, THEY’RE ALL”	240
XVI.	THE EMPEROR AND THE COMTESSE DE MERCY-ARGENTEAU	245
XVII.	THE EMPEROR’S CORRESPONDENCE	259
XVIII.	CITIZEN—PRESIDENT—EMPEROR	268
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