3. Auguste de Morny

  1.     Maxime Du Camp, Souvenirs d’un Demi-Siècle, 1830–1870 (Paris: Hachette, 1949), v. I, p. 228.

  2.     Michel Carmona, Morny, Le Vice-Empereur (Paris: Fayard, 2005), p. 499—Antonio Panizzi.

  3.     Louis Blanc, Histoire de Dix Ans, 1830–1840 (Paris: Pagnerre, 1849), v. IV, p. 305.

  4.     Pierre de La Gorce, Louis-Philippe (Paris: Plon, 1931), p. 51.

  5.     Hortense, Mémoires de la Reine Hortense (Paris: Plon, 1928), pp. 272 ff; Carmona, op. cit., p. 42. On Hortense see: Constance Wright, Daughter to Napoleon, A Biography of Hortense, Queen of Holland (New York: Holt, Reinhardt & Winston, 1961); Duc de Castries, La Reine Hortense (Paris: Tallandier, 1984). See also: Françoise de Bernardy, Son of Talleyrand, Charles Joseph de Flahaut (London: Collins, 1956).

  6.     Carlo Bronne, La Comtesse Le Hon et la Première Ambassade de Belgique à Paris (Bruxelles: La Renaissance du Livre, 1952), pp. 120–123; Charles Fresne, Morny, l’Homme du Second Empire (Paris: Perrin, 1983), p. 85.

  7.     Bronne, op. cit., p. 118; Hortense to Fanny Le Hon, August, 1836. Hortense had developed code words for their communications. Bronne, Ibid., p. 117, discusses adoption. Cf. also Jules Bertaut, Le Roi Jérôme (Paris: Flammarion, 1954), p. 228, ending of the engagement.

  8.     Bronne, Ibid., p. 117. Cf. also Jules Bertrant, Le Roi Jérôme (Paris: Flammarion, 1954), p. 228.

  9.     Bronne, op. cit., p. 46.

  10.   Bronne, Ibid., pp. 85–86.

  11.   Edmond de Lignières d’Alton Shée, Mes Mémoires (1826–1848) (Paris: Librairie Internationale, 1868), vol. II, p. 9.

  12.   D’Alton Shée, Ibid., pp. 9, 66.

  13.   Cf. Françoise de Bernardy’s Walewski, 1810–1868, Le Fiul polonais de Napoléon (Paris: Perrin, 1976); Carmona, op. cit., p. 84.

  14.   D’Alton Shée, op. cit., p. 9.

  15.   D’Alton Shée, Ibid., p. 9.

  16.   Ludovic Halévy, Carnets (Paris: Calmann-Levy, 1935), v. I, pp. 55–56. See also Jean-Claude Yon, Jacques Offenbach (Paris: Gallimard, 2000), p. 314; and Carmona, op. cit., p. 450, also discussing his traits.

  17.   Carmona, op. cit., p. 451; Jacques Offenbach to Ernest Lépine, March 13, 1865; Yon, op. cit., p. 314.

  18.   Maxime Du Camp, op. cit., v. I, pp. 228, 229.