The Empress Eugenie (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Empress Eugenie "It is all very beautiful - for the moment," said Alfred de Musset, as he descended the stairs at the Tuileries one night, "but I would not give two sous for the last act!" And the Empress Eugenie, when asked, at the Hotel Continental, if she would receive some comparative strangers, is credited with replying: "They only come from curiosity; they want to see the fifth act!" Of some of the scenes comprising "the last act," I was an insignificant spectator. One was the illusory French "victory" at Saarbrücken, when the boy-Prince first saw the realities of war; another, the daylong combat round Sedan, described in these pages by the Emperor Napoleon himself. I owe this document to the good offices of M. Adrien Hebrard, Editor of the Temps. To M. Gaston Calmette, Editor of the Figaro, I am doubly indebted: first, for his eloquent and convincing defence of the Empress Eugenie; and, next, for M. Lucien Alphonse Daudet´s picture of the Empress in her Hampshire home - a romantic narrative, fascinating alike by its poetical charm and its verisimilitude, and worthy of the distinguished name of its creator. 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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