5. Return to Arenenberg
1. Louis Napoléon to his sister-in-law, Charlotte Bonaparte, n.d. 1831, Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 27–28.
2. Pascal Clément, Persigny: L’Homme qui a inventé Napoléon III (Paris: Perrin, 2006), p. 13.
3. Louis Napoléon to his father, Aug. 31, 1831, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 27.
4. Louis Napoléon to his father, April 9, 1831, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 20. This was one of several letters published in Le Figaro, Dec. 8, 12, and 13, 1894.
5. Hortense to Antoinette Arese, letter, n.d. [August 1831?], Romauldo Bonfadini, Vita di Francesco Arese (Torino: Roux, 1894), p. 34; Grabinski, op. cit., pp. 44–45.
6. Grabinski, Ibid., p. 45.
7. Louis Napoléon to his father, May 10, 1832 [or 1833], Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 29.
8. François Auguste René Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’Outre-Tomb (Paris: Penau, 1850), vol. 12, p. 5; Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 47; and Thirria, op. cit., v. I, p. 8.
9. Louis Napoléon to Dr. Coremans, June 1834, Thirria, op. cit., v. I, p. 10.
10. Louis Bonaparte to his son, Sept. 12, 1834, Giraudeau, Ibid., pp. 30–31.
11. Louis Bonaparte to his son, Sept. 16, 1834, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 33, n. 1.
12. Louis Napoléon to his father, Feb. 7, 1835, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 36.
13. Clément, op. cit., p. 13.
14. See Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, Duc de Persigny, Mémoires du Duc de Persigny (Paris: Plon, 1896), throughout.