TRANSLATOR'S NOTE

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I PARIS BESIEGED The Political Situation

CHAPTER II THE DEPARTURE

CHAPTER III WONDERS AND EVENTS OF AN AERIAL VOYAGE

CHAPTER IV A CHANGE

CHAPTER V THE STORM

CHAPTER VI THE FALL

CHAPTER VII AN ENCOUNTER

CHAPTER VIII EN ROUTE FOR THE FRONTIER

CHAPTER IX A SPY AT DIEPPE

CHAPTER X ACROSS GERMANY

CHAPTER XI IN AUSTRIA

CHAPTER XII LONDON

CHAPTER XIII AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE

CHAPTER XIV HAWARDEN CASTLE

Transcriber's Notes

A DIPLOMAT’S
MEMOIR OF 1870

Being the Account of a Balloon Escape from
the Siege of Paris and a Political Mission to
London and Vienna by

FREDERIC REITLINGER

Private Secretary to M. Jules Favre, Vice-President of the
Provisional Government of 1870; Avocat of the Cour
d’Appel, Paris

Translated from the French, by his Nephew,
HENRY REITLINGER
M.A. King’s Coll. Camb.

LONDON
CHATTO & WINDUS
1915