16. Countdown to Empire
1. Pres. of the Republic Bonaparte, Amiens, July 7, 1849, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 29.
2. Pres. Bonaparte to audience, Tours, 1849, Jerrold, Ibid., vol. III, p. 30.
3. Jerrold, Ibid., vol. III, p. 29.
4. Speech delivered at Ham, July 29, 1849, Milza, op. cit., p. 213; Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 29.
5. Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 312–332.
6. Carmona, Morny, p. 156; Giraudeau, op. cit.; Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 30. A citizen of Tours or of Touraine is called “Tourangeau” and “Tourangelle.”
7. Louis Napoléon to General Count de Flahaut, September 17, 1850. Carmona, op. cit., p. 163.
8. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 29–30.
9. Milza, op. cit., p. 217; Carmona, op. cit., p. 156.
10. Henry Temple to brother William Temple, July 7, 1849, Southampton University Archives, PP. GC/TE/327; David Brown, op. cit., p. 314.
11. Carmona, op. cit., pp. 156–157. “Le petit homme.”
12. Carmona, Ibid., pp. 156–157.
13. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 35.
14. Jerrold, Ibid., vol. III, pp. 33–35.
15. Falloux was the author of Histoire de Saint Pie V, and of L’Évêque d’Orléans, followed by his Mémoires d’un Royaliste.
16. From Falloux’s Mémoires: “ces affreux petits rouges.” “Dieu dans l’education. Le pape à la tête de l’Eglise. L’Eglise à la tête de la civilization.”
17. Carmona, op. cit., p. 158, Flahaut to Morny, Oct. 1849.
18. Carmona, Ibid., pp. 159–160.
19. Brown, op. cit., p. 324, Henry Temple to William Temple, Sept. 1, 1850, PP GC/TE/335.
20. Count de Chambord, 1820–1883, grandson of Charles X and legal next in line to the throne, he was considered by Bourbon followers to be Henri V, King of France and Navarre.
21. Louis Girard, op. cit., p. 128; Carmona, op. cit., p. 164.
22. Carmona, Ibid., p. 170.
23. Carmona, Ibid., p. 171.
24. Carmona, Ibid., p. 173; Jerrold, op. cit., v. III, p. 62.
25. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 62.
26. Carmona, op. cit., p. 173.
27. Claude Defresne, Morny, L’Homme du Second Empire (Paris: Perrin, 1983), p. 131.
28. Carmona, op. cit., pp. 173–174. Morny to Valérie Masuyer, Sept. 12, 1851.
29. Flahaut to his wife, Margaret, Nov. 24, 1851—all his letters to her were in English. Philip Guedalla, The Secret of the [Dec. 1851] Coup (London: Constable, 1924), p. 115.
30. Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 138; Carmona, op. cit., p. 175.
31. Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 63. No original French available.
32. Le Siècle, 15 oct. 1851. Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, Histoire de la Chute du Roi Louis Phillipe, de la République de 1848 et du Rétablissement de l’Empire, 1847–1855 (Paris: Plon, 1857), 2 vols. An insider’s history of these events.
33. Flahaut describes his work to his wife as “violent,” letter to wife, Nov. 24, 1851. Guedalla, op. cit., pp. 115–116.