11. To Ham, with Love, Tosh, and Toil

0.     Louis Napoléon’s diary at Ham, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 99.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Narcisse Vieillard, 1843, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 101.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Maître Berryer, 7 août 1840, Thirria, vol. I, pp. 201–202.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Mme. Salvage de Faverolles, 16 oct. 1840, Giraudeau, Ibid., vol. I, p. 90.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Narcisse Vieillard, 10 avril 1842, Giraudeau, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 105–106.

0.     Giraudeau, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 86–87. Narcisse Vieillard, 1791–1857, a cultured gentleman, a graduate of the École Polytechnique, had served as a young officer under Napoléon.

0.     Prof. Adrien Dansette thought that Montholon was serving as an informer for Charles de Rémusat, Louis Philippe’s minister of the interior. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. II, pp. 345–346, 385–386. Louis Napoléon later had to pay him off, to keep him out of Paris.

0.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 201. Persigny’s De la destination et de l’utilité des Pyramides, published privately in Paris in 1845.

0.     Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 208, n. 5; Louis Blanc, Révélations Historiques (Bruxelles: Méline, 1859), vol. II, p. 220.

0.   He submitted a paper entitled “Production des Courants Électriques” on metal conductors, to François Arago at the Académie des Sciences.

0.   Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 209–210. Louis Napoléon to N. Vieillard, 20 février 1841.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 209–210, and on 210 n. 3. See Moniteur Universelle, 19 février 1849, article under “Variétés.”

0.   Louis Napoléon’s two illegitimate sons: Alexandre Luis Eugène (Comte d’Orx) born in Dec. 1842, and Louis Ernst Alexandre (Comte de Labenne) born in March 1845. Both sons were raised first by Harriet Howard along with her son, Martin, until about 1853, and then by Hortense Cornu.

0.   Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 209, n. 2. Quotes are from Louis Blanc’s Révélations Historiques, vol. II, p. 221.

0.   Le Canal de Nicaragua ou Projet de Jonction des Océans Atlantique et Pacifique au moyens d’un Canal. Blanchard Jerrod, The Life of Napoleon the Third (London: Longmans, Green, 1875), regarding this canal project, vol. II, pp. 312–331. Louis Napoléon to his father, 19 Sept. 1845.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Int. Min. Duchâtel, May 28, 1844, Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 216–217.

0.   Analyse de la Question des Sucres, published in 1842; Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 245–249.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 236; Jerrold, Ibid., vol. II, 98.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 238.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 240.

0.   See Alan Schom, Emile Zola, A Bourgeois Rebel (New York: Henry Holt, 1988), and as an ebook, 2015, Endeavour Press, Amazon.

0.   Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 259–264.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 259–264.

0.   May 1884, Georges Sand to Louis Napoléon, Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 259, n. 2

0.   Fort de Ham, 19 Septembre 1845, quoted by Jerrold, op. cit., vol. II, footnote on pp. 309–310. He informed Hortense November 12, Jerrold, vol. II, pp. 311–312.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid., vol. II, p. 306. Jerrold mentions Malmesbury’s role in April 1845.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 218. Louis Napoléon to the Inter. Min., Dec. 25, 1845.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Louis Philippe, 14 janvier 1846, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. II, p. 335. See also Thirria, vol. I, p. 246.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 222–227; Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 108; Jerrold, op. cit., vol. II, p. 354, Louis Napoléon to his father, Londres, le 27 mai 1846; Jerrold, Ibid., vol. II, p. 357, n. 1. Louis Napoléon to Vieillard, June 1, 1846.