19. Violets and Wedding Bells

0.     Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 122.

0.     Impératrice Eugénie (Duke of Alba and Gabriel Hanotaux, eds.), Lettres familières de l’Impératrice Eugénie (Paris: Plon, 1871–1872), vol. I, p. 53; Desmond Seward, Eugénie, the Empress and Her Empire (Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing, 2004), p. 40.

0.     Seward, op. cit., pp. 4–5.

0.     Seward, Ibid., p. 6.

0.     Seward, Ibid., p. 1.

0.     The Trianon corrida fight, in Seward, Ibid., p. 68. She described sexual relations as “sale,” dirty, and was greatly embarrassed by her mother’s endless affairs.

0.     Seward, Ibid., pp. 15, 19.

0.     Lord Malmesbury’s description of Gen. Nárvaez, Seward, Ibid., p. 12, the stabbing, pp. 15 and 19.

0.     Seward, Ibid., p. 18.

0.   Seward, Ibid., p. 14.

0.   Seward, Ibid., p. 14.

0.   Seward, Ibid., pp. 20–22.

0.   Seward quotes Viel-Castel, p. 31.

0.   For Maxime Du Camp’s tirade against Eugénie, see his Souvenirs, op. cit., pp. 146–176; Seward, op. cit., p. 45.

0.   Prince Jérôme—Plon-Plon—met Eugénie in Madrid in 1843, “unbalanced,” “crude”—Seward, op. cit., p. 13. Anna Bicknell’s description of Jérôme—“coarse,” “brutal,” “violent,” etc. Anna Bicknell, Life in the Tuileries: Under the Second Empire (London: Longmans, 1895), pp. 64–65. Von Hübner, who very much admired Eugénie, left a very rich anecdotal coverage of his diplomatic tour in Paris, in his Neuf ans de souvenirs d’un ambassadeur d’Autriche à Paris sous le Second Empire (Paris: Plon, 1905), see vol. I, p. 310; Seward, op. cit., p. 75.

0.   Carmona, Morny, op. cit., p. 224. Eugénie and Louis Napoléon suffered from the crudest pornographic vilification. The good Goncourt described Louis Napoléon as a “reptile” and “lizard.”

0.   Seward, op. cit., p. 39.

0.   Full list of of her father’s titles.

0.   There are several versions as to how, when, and where this event took place.

0.   Dufresne, op. cit., p. 207.

0.   Dufresne, Ibid., p. 208.

0.   Once again there is more than one version of this event. It was not the wife of the foreign minister, but of the minister of public instruction. Seward, op. cit., pp. 36–37; Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 427–428.

0.   Seward, op. cit., p. 37. The original letter is in the Alba Archives, Liliria Palace, Madrid.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid., vol. III, p. 429. Moniteur Universel, 17 janvier 1853. Napoléon III, Oeuvres de Napoléon III (Paris: Plon, 1869), vol. 3, pp. 357–359; Milza, op. cit., p. 294.

0.   Seward, op. cit., p. 40; original in Eugénie, Lettres Familières, p. 53.

0.   Today the Regent Diamond is on display in the Louvre, valued at £48 million ($71 million).

0.   Jerrold describes some of the clothing, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 432–433; see also Schom, Napoleon Bonaparte, pp. 337 ff.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid., vol. III, Appendix VII, pp. 433, 475–478, and in greater detail in the Moniteur Universel and The Times, etc.

0.   Carmona, op. cit., p. 226.

0.   The dispensing of charity from her corbeille de marriage fund, Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, pp. 431–432: 100,000 francs to “maternal societies,” the remaining 150,000 francs for a new wing of the Hospice des Incurables in Paris. Seward, op. cit., p. 39, her letter to sister Paca. Louis Girard, op. cit., mentions 3,000 pardons, while Jerrold, op. cit., vol. III, p. 435, gives the more accurate figure of 4,312.