PUBLISHERS' NOTE
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I Last Days of the Empire: Napoleon and EugEnie
CHAPTER II The Surroundings and Friends of the Sovereigns
CHAPTER III Fontainebleau and CompiEgne
CHAPTER IV Political Men of the Time
CHAPTER V Before the Storm
CHAPTER VI The Disaster
CHAPTER VII Letters from Paris during the Siege
CHAPTER VIII The Commune
CHAPTER IX M. Thiers
CHAPTER X The Comte de Chambord and His Party
CHAPTER XI The Orleans Princes
CHAPTER XII The Duc d'Aumale and Chantilly
CHAPTER XIII The Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
CHAPTER XIV Two Great Ministers
CHAPTER XV Paris Society under the Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
CHAPTER XVI A Few Prominent Parisian Hostesses
CHAPTER XVII Madame Juliette Adam
CHAPTER XVIII A Few Literary Men
CHAPTER XIX The 16th of May and the Fall of Marshal MacMahon
CHAPTER XX Leon Gambetta
CHAPTER XXI The Adventure of General Boulanger
CHAPTER XXII The Panama Scandal
CHAPTER XXIII Two Presidents
CHAPTER XXIV Imperial and Presidential Visits
CHAPTER XXV The French Press
CHAPTER XXVI The Presidency of M. Loubet
CHAPTER XXVII The Dreyfus Affair
CHAPTER XXVIII Parisian Salons under the Third Republic
CHAPTER XXIX The Present Tone of Paris Society
CHAPTER XXX M. FalliEres as President
CHAPTER XXXI M. Briand and the Socialists
CHAPTER XXXII A Few Literary Men of the Present Day
CHAPTER XXXIII A Few Foreign Diplomats
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INDEX
Contents. Index: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Z
List of Illustrations (In certain versions of this etext [in certain browsers] clicking on the image will bring up a larger version.)
(etext transcriber's note)
From the painting by Cabanel.
NAPOLEON III.
BY Count Paul Vassili Illustrated FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY New York and London 1914
