6. Romance and Ructions

0.     “Croyez moi, je connais la France,” quoted by Arman François Rupert Laity, Relation Historique des Événements du 30 Octobre 1830 (Paris: Plon, Nourrit, 1895), pp. 19–31.

0.     Mathilde Bonaparte regarding her engagement to Louis Napoléon, Jules Bertaut, Le Roi Jérôme (Paris: Flammarion, 1954), pp. 227–228.

0.     Bertaut, Ibid., pp. 211–212.

0.     Bertaut, Ibid., pp. 223–224.

0.     Milza, op. cit., pp. 93–94.

0.     Jean Des Cars, La Princesse Mathilde (Paris: Perrin, 1996), p. 61, Milza, op. cit., p. 95; Bertaut, op. cit., p. 226.

0.     Laity, op. cit., pp. 29–30; Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 57.

0.     Laity, op. cit., pp. 19–32, 28–29; Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 56.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Gen. Voirol, 14 août 1836, Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 60–61.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 63–64, Exelmans to Major de Bruc, août 1836.

0.   Bronne, pp. 117–121.

   12.  See Bronne for this generally unknown background regarding Hortense and Fanny Le Hon. They had been corresponding for months regarding the necessity of recognizing Auguste de Morny as Hortense’s son, and of his inclusion in her Last Will and Testament. But these papers had not yet been drawn up and signed by the time of Hortense’s death.