AAbdul-Aziz,387Aguado, Mme.,63,153Albany, Duchess of,83Albe, Duc d’,4,47Duchesse d’,57,62,107,153Mlles. d’,293Albuféra, Maréchale d’,47Duchesse d’,353Alcanises, Marquis d’,60Aldama, Mme. de,153Alexander II., Emperor,297Alexandra, Queen,388,389Allsop, Mr. (Orsini),83Alten, Count von,206Alvensleben, General von,208Ambès, Baron d’,24,270André, M.,269,270Angely, Marshal Regnault de Saint-Jean d’,78Aoste, Dowager Duchesse d’,349,351,354,358(late), Duc d’,380Duc d’,382Duchesse d’,382Arcos, Mme. de,73,153,386,389Argyll, Duchess of,388Arnaud, Mme. St.,37Auber, M.,79Augusta, Queen of Prussia,291Aumale, Duc d’,201Austin, Alfred (Poet-Laureate),400Austria, Empress of,148Emperor of,168,356,371Autemarre, General d’,192,193Auvergne, Prince de La Tour d’,194Azeglio, Marquis d’,230BBacciochi, Comte,100,269Baden, Grand Duchess of,31Bapst, M. Germain,168,184,186,190Baroche, M.,271Barron, Mrs.,155Barrot, M.,271Bartholini, Mme.,133,134Bassano, Duc de,300Mlle. de,352Bassano, Duchesse de,40Battenberg, Princess Henry of,377,388,392Prince Henry of,377Bazaine, Marshal,181,183,192,193,196,199,201,202,203,210,294,304,305Beaumont, Comtesse de,149Beckwith, Miss,155Bedmar, Marquis de,45Belgiojoso, Princesse,154Marquise de,60Benedetti, Comte,282,291Beneyton, Monsieur H.,352Bernhardt, Mme. Sarah,385Berryer, M.,26Bertrand, M.,306Beust, Count,166,298M. and Mme. Maurice,385Bigelow, Mr. John,108Billault, M.,271Bischoffsheim, Mme. Ferdinand,155Bismarck, Count von,69,75,125,208,218,220,221,275,278,291,292,332,333Blanchet, M.,379Blessington, Lady,19,22,28Bojano, Duchesse de,154Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland,8,9,28,29Prince Pierre,21,336Prince Roland,385Princesse Jeanne,385Princesse Marie (Princess George of Greece),385Princesse Lætitia,385Prince Lucien,385Princess Lucien,385Boulanger, General,370Bourbaki, General,291Bourgoing, Baron de,75,133Brown, Mr. John,392Bruat, Admiral,328Mlles.,328Brunswick, Duke of,80Buguet, M.,393Burdett-Coutts, Miss,31Burgoyne, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John,231,233,234,235Lady,231,233CCabanel, M.,135Cabrol, Dom, Lord Abbot of St. Michael’s, Farnborough,377Calderon, M.,153Calmette, M. Gaston,278Canisy, Mme. de,149,155Canrobert, Marshal,74,78,182,192,193,196,197,198,199,200Mme.,169Carette, Mme.,57Carey, Lieutenant,306Carrère, M. Jean,357Carroll, Mrs.,155Cassagnac, MM. de,345Paul de,217,303Castelbajac, Comte de,153Castellane, Marquis de,274Castelnau, General,213Castiglione, Comtesse de,137,141,154Cavour, Count,229,230Chaband-Latour, General,178Chambord, Comte de,370Chambrier, M. James de,88Changarnier, General,271Chapelle, Comte de La,301,320Vicomte de La,301,308Chaplin, Mr.,72Charette, General Baron de,155Chasseloup-Laubat, Marquise de,155,328Chazal, General,190,222Chigi, Mgr.,143Chimay, Prince de,363Christian, Princess,392Circourt, Comtesse de,229Clarendon, Lord,97,111Claretie, M. Jules,393Clary, Comte,316,317Conegliano, Duc de,236Conneau, Dr.,23,24,103,105,228,301Mme.,72M., jun.,133Constantine, Grand Duke,120Contades, Marquise de,42Conti, M.,276Cornu, Mme.,27,275Corvisart, Baron,211Courson, General de,213Courtval, Mme. de,163,164Coventry, Lord,72Cowley, Lord,100Lady,101DDaru, Comte,284David, M. Jérôme,184,185,190,286Davilliers, Comte,211Delafosse, M. Jules,343,344Delessert, Mme.,2M. Edouard,100Demidoff, Prince Anatole,32,41,384Denmark, King of,386Diego, M.,153Dino, Duchesse de,45,47Dion, Marquis de,356Dosse, M.,390,391Douay, General,169Ducrot, General,211Dumas, Alexandre,163Dumont, General,192Dumoulin, M. Maurice,227Duperré, Charles,180,185,192,193,194,195Durangel, M.,185Duruy, M.,383Duvernois, M. Clément,286EEdinburgh, Duke of,387Edward VII., King,387,388,389Edwards, H. Sutherland,206Ellrichshausen, Colonel von,220Espinasse, M.,271Eugénie, the Empress:sees her future Consort for the first time,1;her Paris education, her friends, departure from Paris for Spain,2;the school at Clifton, in her teens, at the bull-fights, the “élégants,”3;“Ugenia” and the Spanish Dukes, the Comtesse de Montijo’s salon and her “pollos,”4;a variegated life, travels, Eugénie at Buckingham Palace,5;at the Palmerstons (London), in the Pyrenees,6;Eugénie at Compiègne, the courting, the Fortoul incident,33;the Emperor’s offer of marriage,34;the Court divided on the question,35;the gipsy fortune-teller,36;the lovelorn Dukes, snubbing the fiancée, the hasty Empress,37;“a delicate question,”38;the Emperor’s real opinion of Eugénie, “only my husband shall kiss me,”39;discomfited Ministers,40;M. Thiers’ sarcasm, Princesse Mathilde’s appeal to the Emperor,41;Eugénie at Princesse Mathilde’s ball, she is “the actual rising sun,” at the Opera,42;she makes splendid “copy” for the papers, some unflattering people,43;the Comtesse de Montijo’s parsimony, enthusiasm of the Madrid Press,44;the Duchesse de Dino’s amusing letters, jokes made about the Empress,45,46,47;the Heralds’ College, Paris, explains the genealogy of the Montijo-Guzmans,48;portrait-in-words of the Empress,49-69;at Biarritz,70,71;the Empress and the Grand Prix,72;quality of the Tuileries’ wine criticized, “not so good as Pinard’s,” a military review,73;Eugénie “in all the radiance of her beauty,”74;the “Bal des Souverains,”75;other fêtes to the Foreign Sovereigns and Princes, the Empress’s success as hostess,76;the Empress and Isabelle, the flower-girl,79;some distinguished people,80;the Orsini “attempt,” the Empress’s courage,83-87;as the result of “scenes,” the Empress goes to Scotland,89;the Empress Eugénie and the Empress of Mexico, a scene at St. Cloud, the weeping Eugénie,93;the Empress at Windsor Castle, the “Garter” conferred upon the Emperor in the Empress’s presence,94,95;the Empress with Queen Victoria at Osborne,97;her happy days in the Isle of Wight,98;the Empress’s “great” and “little” balls,99;the Empress seldom dances,100;she tells a story at one of the “Mondays,”101,102;the Duchess of Sutherland and the Empress,105,106;Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower describes the Empress at the Tuileries and at Windsor,106,107;visit of the Empress to Stafford House,107;an American diplomatist describes the Empress “without a country,”108;the Empress’s letter on cricket,111,112;the Empress at Fontainebleau, the Imperial Hunt,115;Eugénie’s apartments at Fontainebleau formerly occupied by Marie Antoinette, the boudoir, “she would have liked to milk a cow and to make butter,” the procession to the imperial bedrooms,117;the Empress improvises open-air dinners, her “turlututus,” she is a “romantic,”119;Pierrefonds, the château which gave the Empress a travelling-name, she admires the eighteenth century, at Fontainebleau she is happiest,120;the splendours of Fontainebleau, the ladies’ stories,121;“talk to the Empress about her crinolines” (De Morny),122;the Empress speaks loudly, her drives, luncheons, and excursions,123;she enjoys herself when wet through, and pays a fine for being late at dinner,124;a dramatic incident at Fontainebleau, the Empress in tears at a Ministerial Council,126;the first of “the Compiègnes,” attended by Eugénie and her mother, both ardent sportswomen,129;family gathering on the Empress’s fête-day, life at Compiègne, the Empress acts in a piece by Feuillet,132;Her Majesty in high spirits, rejoicing at the coming struggle in Mexico,135,136;the Empress blamed for countenancing the “Exotics,”137;she is thrown among cosmopolitan society,138;the Empress, Princesse de Metternich, and the Comtesse de Castiglione, enthusiasm of the Austrian Ambassador for the Empress,141;influence of the Princesse over Eugénie,143;what she said about Her Majesty,148;the beautiful Duchesse d’Albe, the Empress’s sister,153;the Empress welcomes the Spanish ladies,154;a great favourite of the Empress,160;the Comtesse E. de Pourtalès and the Empress,161;the Empress’s war telegrams to the Emperor, her courage and hopefulness, indefatigable exertions, and ability as Regent,165-201;new versions of the Empress’s flight from the Tuileries and escape from Paris,223-228;story of Chevalier Nigra and the Empress,230-231;Sir John Burgoyne’s narrative of the Empress and the voyage from Deauville to Ryde,231-234;what the Empress told Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower at Chislehurst, the bust of Marie Antoinette swept off the table,235,236;the exact hour of the Empress’s departure from the Tuileries, September4, 1870,237;“the Empress’s crown of thorns,” her heroic conduct after Sedan,237,238;plot to defraud the Empress described by M. Pietri,238,239;list of objects left at the Tuileries in 1870 by the Empress, the Emperor, and the Prince Imperial,240-244;the Empress’s complaints to Queen Victoria of English newspaper attacks upon the Emperor, Bismarck a favourite of the Empress,275;M. Émile Ollivier and the Empress,277;the “Case” for the Empress, published in the volume, “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,” her own statement,278;what the Empress said upon reading that the Hohenzollern candidature was withdrawn,291;“Do your duty, Louis!”293;M. Émile Ollivier’s courageous defence of the Empress, and confirmation of her statements in the “Case,”295;the Author’s remarks on the “Case,”296;the critics, Comte de La Chapelle, and the Empress,301;Marshal Bazaine and the Empress,304;the Vicomte de La Chapelle confirms statements published in “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,”305;the Empress and the Comte de La Chapelle,316,317;the Empress and Colonel Stoffel,323;the Empress’s presents to Prince and Princess Napoleon on their marriage,353,354;a portrait of the Empress chez Prince Napoleon,365;Prince Napoleon and Princesse Clémentine visit the Empress at Farnborough Hill,373;King Leopold, Princesse Clémentine, and Princesse Stéphanie visit the Empress at Cap Martin,ibid.;the Empress at her Hampshire home,374,375;the Empress at eighty-five, her letters of condolence to Queen Alexandra, Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, on the death of King Edward, and her Imperial Majesty’s beautiful souvenir of the King,388,389;the Empress’s last visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace, her long cruise in 1910, her visit to the Sultan, she witnesses the launch of theOrionand lunches with King George and Queen Mary at Marlborough House, a cruise in theErinas the guest of Sir Thomas Lipton, she is present at the King’s Coronation Review of the Fleet,389;M. Paoli narrates an adventure at Nice concerning the Empress,390,391;the Empress hears Mass at the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Cowes,391;she visits and is visited by English Princesses, and walks on the Parade at Cowes,392;death of one of her pensioners,ibid.;a new French play, “Napoleon III.,” with the Empress and the Emperor as characters, other Napoleonic plays,392-394;a garden festival in the park and grounds of the imperial residence, Farnborough Hill,395;the Empress’s tomb at St. Michael’s Abbey Church,396;Cardinal Manning’s eulogy of the Empress and the Prince Imperial,398,399;the words of the Empress,399Evans, Mr. T. W.,223,226,227,231,232FFalize, MM.,353Farnborough Hill, idyll of,373Farquhar, Mr.,25Fave, General,75Favre, Jules,26,288Flandre, Comtesse de,351,352,354,371Comte de,387Fleury, Comte,21,60,68,78,271,276Comtesse,78Flowers, Miss,3Forest, Baron de,158Fortoul, M. and Mme.,33,37,128M.,271Fould, M. Achille,35,47,48,61,149,271Frederick Charles, Prince,219Frias, Duchesse de,153Frossard, General,171,172,173,180,181,182,293,334GGalliera, Duchesse de,142Galliffet, Marquise de,73,106,133,155,159,160,161Marquis de,79,160,161Mlle. Diane de,159Gamble, Mr.,217Gautier, Théophile,79,363Geneva, Bishop of,360Gerlach, General von,273German Emperor and Empress,372,373Glenesk, Lord (Mr. A. Borthwick),110,300Goddard, Monsignor,393Goltz, Baron,71Major-General Count von,75Gordon, Mrs. (néeBruault),20Gounod, M.,135Goze, General,212Grammont-Caderousse, Duc de,79,151,152,160Gramont, Duc de,282,291,292,293,295,296,297,298Greece, King of,386H.R.H. Prince George of,385Gricourt, Marquis de,21,281,282Guadalcazar, Marquis de,153Guadalmina, Marquise de,153“Gyp,”