25. A Child of France

0.     Anceau, op. cit., p. 287.

0.     Milza, op. cit., p. 397.

0.     Cowley, op. cit., p. 90. The British embassy was bought from Pauline Bonaparte Bacciochi by the Duke of Wellington following the fall of Napoléon.

0.     Lord Cowley suggests this to Clarendon, Cowley, op. cit., p. 91.

0.     Victoria to Louis Napoléon, Feb. 15, 1856, in Victoria, The Letters of, op. cit., pp. 172–173. All of her correspondence to him was in French.

0.     Victoria to Palmerston, Feb. 27, 1856, Victoria, Letters, op. cit., pp. 172–173.

0.     Leader of The Times, Wed., March 19, 1856, p. 6. Also a very long article on the serious decay of the administration and government of Turkey.

0.     “Foreign Intelligence”: “Accouchement of the Imperial Empress,” dated Sunday, March 16, reported in The Times, Tuesday, March 18, 1856, p. 8.

0.     Horace de Viel-Castel, Mémoires du Comte Horace de Viel Castel sur le Règne de Napoléon III (1851–1864) (Paris: Chez Tous les Libraries, 1884), vol. III, pp. 213–214.

0.   For Morny’s speech, Moniteur Universel, lundi, 17 mars 1856, p. 1.

0.   The Times, Tuesday, March 18, 1856, p. 8.

0.   The Times, Ibid.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit.

0.   Jerrold, op. cit., vol. IV, p. 111. The hourly palace “Bulletins de Santé” referred to “fièvre de lait” though of course a wet nurse was in fact breast-feeding the baby.

0.   The Times, Thursday, March 20, 1856, p. 9.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. III, p. 221, mardi, 1 avril 1856.

0.   On Saturday the twenty-ninth of March. Jerrold, vol. IV, p. 112; and Moniteur Universel, 18 mars 1856.

0.   Cowley to Clarendon, March 1856, Cowley, op. cit., p. 94.

0.   Clarendon to Cowley, March, 1856, Cowley, op. cit., 95.

0.   Victoria to Louis Napoléon, 3 avril 1856, Victoria, Letters, pp. 182–183.

0.   The Times, Monday, March 31, 1856, quoted Prefect Piétri’s bulletin; see also Moniteur Universel, lundi, 31 mars 1856.

0.   Cowley, op. cit., p. 91; and Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. III, p. 222, mercredi, avril 2, [1856].

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. III, p. 222, mercredi, avril 2 [1856].

0.   Bernardy, Walewski, pp. 211–212.

0.   Fisher and Ochsenwald, op. cit., p. 296.

0.   Bernardy, op. cit., p. 215.

0.   Anceau, op. cit., p. 333–334.

0.   Virginie Castiglione, born in Florence in 1835 (or 1837), DSE, p. 242; Milza, op. cit., pp. 358–360.

0.   Cowley, op. cit., pp. 93–95, 96.

0.   Steward, Eugénie, pp. 103, 108.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. III, p. 221, mardi, 1 avril [1856]; jeudi, 3 avril, and dimanche, 3 mars.

0.   Viel-Castel, Ibid., vol. III, p. 221, mardi, 1 avril. The actual expedition launched in 1857 was comprised of 30,000 men, but Napoléon III remained at the Tuileries, not visiting Algeria for the first time until 1860.

0.   Claude Martin, Histoire de l’Algérie française, 1830–1962 (Paris: Editions du 4 Fils Aymon, 1963), pp. 160–161. Martin gives the official number of French troops killed at 1,500. The government figures for wounded or missing invariably tend to underestimate the actual numbers. Total French casualties probably reached 5,000. The number of Berber warriors killed, given at “bien plus grand” than those of the French.

0.   Viel-Castel, op. cit., vol. III, p. 223, mercredi, 2 avril [1856]. “La France jouit du repos. Elle a conquis la considération. Dieu veuille nous conserver longtemps sous la tutelle de Louis Napoléon.”