15. The Élysée
1. Alexis de Tocquville, De la Démocratie en Amérique (Paris: Michel Levy Frères, 1864), vol. I, Première partie, Ch. III.
2. Former foreign minister Alphonse de Lamartine, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 37.
3. Auguste de Morny to his sister, Emily, Lady Shelburne, ca. late December 1848. Louis Napoléon invited Morny to the Élysée, 10 p.m., Jan. 23–24, 1849—their first meeting. See also, Milza, op. cit., p. 199, and Carmona, Morny, pp. 138–140.
4. Louis Napoléon to Lord Malmesbury, M. Du Camp, op. cit., vol. I, p. 107, n. 1.
5. Du Camp, Ibid., vol. I, p. 105.
6. Carmona, op. cit., pp. 140–141.
7. Morny’s reflections following his first official meeting with his brother, Jan. 23–24, 1849—in his unpublished notes, Souvenirs et Correspondance; and Carmona, op. cit., p. 119.
8. Morny to Margaret, Comtesse de Flahaut, May, 1849, Carmona, op cit, p. 119; Fleury’s Souvenirs (Paris: Plon, 2899–2908), vol. I, 1837–1859, p. 114; and Carmona, op. cit., p. 119.
9. Dec. 3, 1848, Adolphe Thiers to Frédéric Boutet of the Echo Rochelais; and Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 12–13. “Le Parti de l’Ordre.”
10. “Notre honeur militaire est engagé.”
11. Louis Napoléon to Vieillard, June 4, 1849, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, 25.
12. Carmona, op. cit., p. 152.
13. Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 130.
14. Louis Napoléon, in the Moniteur Universel, 7 sept. 1849; and Carmona, op. cit., p. 155; 13 juin 1849, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 25.