7. What Hath God Wrought

0.     Louis Napoléon to his former tutor, Narcisse Vieillard, 28 fevrier 1834, AN. 400 AP41.

0.     Louis Napoléon, Des Idées Napoléoniennes (Paris: Plon, 1860), p. 156.

0.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 60–74.

0.     The London Times, and the Frankfurter Zeitung, both of Nov. 2, 1836.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Hortense, November 1836. Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, pp. 80–84; Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 60–62, and Laity, op. cit., pp. 25–30. Louis Napoléon to Hortense, 19 novembre 1836, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 61, and Napoléon III, Oeuvres de Napoléon III (Paris: Plon-Amyot, 1854–1869), vol. II.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Hortense, 10 nov. 1836, Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 60–61.

0.     Louis Napoléon to Louis Bonaparte, 12 juillet 1836, Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 70.

0.     One pound sterling equaled 35 French francs in 1836. Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 87, n. 3; François Guizot, Mémoires pour servir à l’Histoire de Mon Temps (Paris: Plon, 1858), vol. IV, p. 298.

0.     Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 87, n. 2.

0.   Blanchard Jerrold is the best source for the American phase, The Life of Napoleon III (London: Longmans, Green, 1882), vol. I.

0.   Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 6.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Hortense, Nov. 14–15, 1836, Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 87.

0.   Bertaut, op. cit., pp. 226–229. Five years later Mathilde married the extremely wealthy and sadistic Anatole Demidoff, resulting in a permanent separation. Mathilde received a handsome annual settlement, of which her father, Jérôme, helped himself to 20 percent. Jérôme also “borrowed” her dowry from the bridegroom, and never repaid it. Humiliated, Mathilde never invited her father to her home and rarely ever spoke to him again.

0.   Hortense to her son, 26 décembre 1836, Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 64–66; Hortense to her son, 17 février 1837, Giraudeau, Ibid.

0.   Hortense to Louis Napoléon 16 déc. 1836; Hortense to Louis Napoléon, 3 janvier 1837; Giraudeau, Ibid., p. 65.

0.   Jerrold, op. cit., Philadelphia to New York.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid. Arese was there to greet him.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Hortense, 21 avril 1837, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 67.

0.   Thirria, op. cit., vol. I, p. 84.

0.   Thirria, Ibid., vol. I, pp. 90–92, and Clement von Metterich, Mémoires et Ecrits Divers laissés par le Prince de Metternich, Chancelier de Cour et d’État (Paris: Plon, 1883), vol. VI, p. 190.

0.   Jerrold, op. cit.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid.

0.   Jerrold, Ibid.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Joseph Bonaparte, 21 avril 1837, Giraudeau, op. cit., p. 67.

0.   Francesco Arese elected to remain in America until the following year. He wrote extensively on his travels. See Gravinski, op. cit., pp. 58–63. Septentrionale was published in the appendix of Bonfadini’s work on Arese.

0.   Louis Napoléon to President Martin Van Buren, June 1837, Giraudeau, op. cit., pp. 69–70.

0.   Louis Napoléon to Hortense, London, June 1837, Giraudeau, Ibid., pp. 69–70.