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Title: France in the Nineteenth Century

Author: Elizabeth Latimer

Release Date: November 28, 2004 [EBook #14194]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY ***

Produced by Robert J. Hall

[Illustration: _EMPEROR NAPOLEON I._]

FRANCE

IN

THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

1830-1890

BY ELIZABETH WORMELEY LATIMER

AUTHOR OF "SALVAGE," "MY WIFE AND MY WIFE'S SISTER," "PRINCESS
AMELIE," "FAMILIAR TALKS ON SOME OF SHAKESPEARE'S COMEDIES," ETC.

NOTE

The sources from which I have drawn the materials for this book are
various; they come largely from private papers, and from articles
contributed to magazines and newspapers by contemporary writers,
French, English, and American. I had not at first intended the
work for publication, and I omitted to make notes which would have
enabled me to restore to others the "unconsidered trifles" that
I may have taken from them.

As far as possible, I have endeavored to remedy this; but should
any other writer find a gold thread of his own in my embroidery,
I hope he will look upon it as an evidence of my appreciation of
his work, and not as an act of intentional dishonesty.

E. W. L.

SEPTEMBER, 1892.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER
I. CHARLES X. AND THE DAYS OF JULY
II. LOUIS PHILIPPE AND HIS FAMILY
III. LOUIS NAPOLEON'S EARLY CAREER
IV. TEN YEARS OF THE REIGN OF THE CITIZEN-KING
V. SOME CAUSES OF THE REVOLUTION OF 1848
VI. THE DOWNFALL OF LOUIS PHILIPPE
VII. LAMARTINE AND THE SECOND REPUBLIC
VIII. THE COUP D'ETAT
IX. THE EMPEROR'S MARRIAGE
X. MAXIMILIAN AND MEXICO
XI. THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS AT THE SUMMIT OF
PROSPERITY
XII. PARIS IN 1870,--AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER
XIII. THE SIEGE OF PARIS
XIV. THE PRUSSIANS IN FRANCE
XV. THE COMMUNE
XVI. THE HOSTAGES
XVII. THE GREAT REVENGE
XVIII. THE FORMATION OF THE THIRD REPUBLIC
XIX. THREE FRENCH PRESIDENTS
XX. GENERAL BOULANGER

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

EMPEROR NAPOLEON I
CHARLES X
LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF