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Excerpt from Court Life of the Second French Empire Tuileries, and it' is not surprising, perhaps, that it should have occurred to him to pen a record of the last years which he spent there - the chequered years of the Second Empire. The Little Red Man does not claim to have witnessed personally everything which then occurred (he was never ubiquitous), but during his years of leisure he has cultivated a taste for reading, and, naturally enough, he has peeped into virtually everything that has been written about his old surroundings. He has come upon no little absurdity, no small crop of errors, garnered by outsiders, but he has also noted many interesting facts emanating from Court gentlemen and ladies whom be well remembers, though, as he himself usually remained invisible, they were not aware of his presence beside them. Briefly, piecing together his own personal recollections and those of the more reliable men and women of the time, and adding thereto a number of little-known facts and documents, and sketches of the notable people whom he once knew, he has written a book on the Tuileries Court as it was during the last years of his residence at the Palace. He has described the Court's organization, manners, and customs; he has endeavoured to depict both its magnificence and its darker side; he has dealt, neither too harshly nor too indulgently, he hopes, with its fu'volities; he has not forgotten to include some account of its sojourns at such places as Compiegne, Fontainebleau, and St. Cloud; and he has made a few excursions into the realm of politics in order that certain incidents may be the better understood. He here offers the result of his labours to the courteous critic and the indulgent reader; and as on most occasions his appearance in proprid persaud is, unfortunately, a foreboding of trouble, he sincerely trusts that he will never have reason to visit them otherwise than in this present guise of print and paper. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Life in the Tuileries: Under the Second Empire The palace of the Tuileries under previous sovereigns - Proclamation of the Second Empire - The Comte de Tascher de la Pagerie - Napoleon I. and Josephine - Ball given by Prince Schwarzenberg on the marriage of Napoleon I. with Marie-Louise - Tragic fate of the Princess von der Leyen - Her daughter married to the Comte de Tascher de la Pagerie - Exile after the fall of the First Empire - Prince Eugene de Beauharnais - Queen Hortense - Napoleon III. in his youth - His friendship for the Comte de Tascher de la Pagerie - When President of the French Republic he summons the Comte and his son to the Elysee - Their opposition to his marriage with Eugenie de Montijo overruled - Court of the Empress Eugenie. The beautiful palace built by Catherine de Med Licis, and afterward enlarged by the succeeding royal owners, was not, at first, a favorite residence of the French kings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Women of the Second Empire: Chronicles of the Court of Napoleon III, Compiled From Unpublished Documents He lays no undue stress on the central figure of the picture, but deals out pretty equal measure to all. He feels that the time has not yet come for a serious judgment on characters and events. With all this, being but human, he cannot conceal his envy of posterity. What wonderful memoirs are now being written for that spoiled child of the ages; what precious files of correspondence already lie in many a chateau of Europe Much of it is no doubt devoted to the personality of the Empress. She was not exactly a woman of culture, and she knew it, but she aspired to be a woman of affairs. She was necessarily a woman of fashion, as the fount' of honour in that com manding interest, not for France alone, but, through France, for all the world. What she wore one day London, Vienna, and New York would be wearing the next, and Kamchatka as soon as possible. The late Mr. Worth has given us an impressive account of his deliberations on the issue of a new costume. It was first excogitated by the great man as a sort of Minister of the Robes without portfolio, and then submitted to a council of ladies-in waiting. When it had passed that critical ordeal it was submitted to the Empress, to be again modified according to her commands. Then it was launched experimentally by the fairest of the bevy, who took public opinion on it by a drive in the Bois or a visit to the Opera. With this plebiscitary appeal in its favour, it was finally adopted by the throne and it acquired the validity of a decree. But all this belonged to only one side of the sovereign's nature. She was at once a lover of gaiety and a devotee, and on the more serious side she fell largely under the in uence of the clerical party. She grew more and more interested in politics; and the fixed belief of most F rench men is that the supreme decision ln the matter of the fatal war was largely due to her in uence. Prussia, they argue. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Excerpt from The Great Days of Versailles: Studies From Court Life in the Later Years of Louis XIV The following pages do not profess to be history; still less do they pretend to throw any new light upon a period which is already so exhaustively known through its memoirs and its letters. All that I have attempted to do is to reconstruct from familiar materials a picture of Court life at Versailles in the later years of Louis XIV - the manners, customs, and interests of a unique society which has no counterpart in modern Europe - and to give a brief account of the private life and character of some of the people who figured most prominently in the events of the time. My hope is that such a compilation may be of use to those who intend to study the French eighteenth-century memoirs, by making them familiar with some of the personal questions which counted for so much at the French Court; and, also, that it may not be without interest for that large class of people who have neither time nor opportunity to study the period in detail, and who are forced to be content with the summaries of others. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.