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The Comedy and Tragedy of the Second Empire

by Edward Legge

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  1. 1Dedication
  2. 2A Note
  3. 3Preface
  4. 4Chapter I — The Empress’s Girlhood
  5. 5Chapter II — The Boyhood and Youth of Napoleon III
  6. 6Chapter III — From London to Ham Viâ Boulogne
  7. 7Chapter IV — Courtship and Engagement
  8. 8Chapter V — Cæsar’s Wife
  9. 9Chapter VI — Apogee of the Second Empire
  10. 10Chapter VII — Two Empresses
  11. 11Chapter VIII — The Tuileries
  12. 12Chapter IX — Fontainebleau
  13. 13Chapter X — Compiègne
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Foreign Legion; and Some Great Ladies
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Sovereigns’ War Despatches
  16. 16Chapter XIII — What Our Eyes Have Seen
  17. 17Chapter XIV — On the Eve of Exile
  18. 18Chapter XV — “These Things Are Little; but, Then, They’re All”
  19. 19Chapter XVI — The Emperor and the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau
  20. 20Chapter XVII — The Emperor’s Correspondence
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Citizen — President — Emperor
  22. 22Chapter XIX — The Pale Emperor
  23. 23Chapter XX — The Emperor’s Collaborator
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Financing the Emperor and “The Cause”
  25. 25Chapter XXII — The Man Who Gave the Warning
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Prince Napoleon — The Empress in 1910-11
  27. 27The Prince Imperial (the Poet Laureate’s Sonnet)

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