8. Farewells and Asylum

  1.     Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 75–76, Louis Bonaparte to Louis Napoléon, ca. 1837.

  2.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 136–139. Louis Napoléon advising the Swiss of his permanent departure from the country.

  3.     October 8, 1837, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 74.

  4.     Louis Philippe quickly acceded to Louis Napoléon’s request to have Hortense buried next to her mother, Joséphine, in France. Giraudeau, Ibid., pp. 74–76. Milza, op. cit., pp. 108 ff.

  5.     Carmona, op. cit., pp. 83–84.

  6.     Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 75.

  7.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 115.

  8.     Journal des Débâts, 8 septembre 1838; and Thirria, vol. I, pp. 133–134.

  9.     Le Siècle, of this date, and Thirria, op. cit., v. I, pp. 131–136.

  10.   Thirria, Ibid., v. I, pp. 136–137.

  11.   Le Siècle, October 1838.

  12.   The Morning Chronicle, Oct. 15, 1840.

  13.   Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 166–169. They later formed the nucleus of the Boulogne landing party.

  14.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, p. 155.

  15.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 141 ff.

  16.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 141 et seq. for his London sojourn.

  17.   A statement made by Louis Napoléon after his arrest in Strasbourg, October 30, 1836, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 59. Quote from his latest (1840) publication, De L’Avenir des Idées Impériales.

  18.   E.g., Napoléon’s December 1804 plebiscite approving the creation of his new Empire. Cf. Schom, op. cit., p. 333, for the Empire. See also the rigged plebiscite of 1800 ending the Directory and creating the Consulate, p. 235.

  19.   Conneau later married a Corsican, Juliette Pasqualini, by whom he had two children; she was the great niece of Marshal Sébastiani. Conneau headed the Imperial medical service under Louis Napoléon and remained his personal physician. He was elected to the Chamber of Deputies, then named senator and Grand Officier de la Légion d’Honneur.