28. Four Seasons
1. Metternich on Napoléon III. Pauline de Metternich, My Years in Paris (London: Everleigh, Nash & Grayson, 1922), p. 14.
2. Pauline von Metternich, Ibid., pp. 9–10.
3. Metternich, Ibid., p. 127.
4. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 126–127.
5. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 91–92, 96. A very superstitious Eugénie associated her own existence closely with that of the beheaded Bourbon queen of Louis XVI, always expecting disaster for herself and her son. Napoléon I wore this diamond in the hilt of his coronation sword.
6. I discuss the background to this in my biography of Napoléon I.
7. Metternich, op. cit., p. 128.
8. Prosper Mérimée to the Comtesse de Montijo, Nov. 28, 1861, in Mérimée, Prosper Mérimée à la Comtsse de Montijo (Paris: Edition Privée, 1930), vol. II, pp. 197–198.
9. Metternich, op. cit., p. 113.
10. Metternich, Ibid., p. 87.
11. Metternich, Ibid.
12. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 87–90.
13. Auguste de Morny was elevated from count to duke on July 15, 1862.
14. Metternich, Ibid., p. 94
15. Metternich, Ibid., p. 98.
16. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 11–14, 99–102.
17. Mérimée to Comtesse de Montijo, Nov. 18, 1863, Ibid., pp. 242–243.
18. Mérimée to Comtesse de Montijo, June 28, 1864, Ibid., p. 253.
19. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 108–109.
20. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 105–107.
21. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 109–110.
22. Metternich, Ibid., p. 137.
23. Metternich, Ibid., p. 136.
24. Metternich, Ibid., pp. 138–139.