Identifier: courtofthesecond00imbe (find matches)
Title: The court of the second empire
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Imbert de Saint-Amand, 1834-1900
Subjects: Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873 France -- History Second Empire, 1852-1870 France -- Court and courtiers
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n III. are his Minister of Foreign Affairs, CountWalewski; his new ambassador at St. Petersburg,Count de Rayneval; two of his aides-de-camp, Gen-eral Count de Failly and General Fleury; and oneof his orderly officers. Prince Joachim Murat. Themost cordial and animated conversation goes onduring the evening. At eleven oclock the Emperorof the French returns to the palace of Stuttgart withTheir Majesties of Wiirtemberg, while the Emperorof Russia remains at the villa of his brother-in-law,the Prince Royal. Saturday, September 26. During the morningNapoleon III. goes to return the Czars call at thevilla of the Prince Royal. At eleven oclock he isjoined there by the King of Wiirtemberg, who takeshim to see the place where he keeps his breeding studof three hundred blooded horses. The two dinetogether afterwards in a fine residence which theWiirtemberg monarch had erected near this estab-lishment, justly celebrated in Germany; and, afteran excursion in the picturesque valley of the Necker,
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ALEXANDER 11Emperor of Russia THE STUTTGART INTERVIEW 217 they return to the palace of Stuttgart. The Emperorof the French occupies himself with his Minister ofForeign Affairs, and then calls upon the Queen ofWiirtemberg, the Queen of Holland, and the GrandDuchess Hélène. At half-past four, without otherescort than General Baur, the kings aide-de-camp,he walks in the city like a private individual, but isthe object of respectful curiosity. At six he dineswith the royal family in the castle of Walhelma, abeautiful construction in the Moorish style, on themodel of the Alhambra, situated in the valley of theNecker, beside Stuttgart, in the midst of delightfulgardens. Here Napoleon III. hears some good news ;the Empress of Russia has just arrived at Stuttgart.As the Empress Eugénie had not come there, Alex-ander II. had at first decided that the Czarina wouldnot come either, and she had remained in the neigli-borhood. But the Czar has been so w^ell^ satisfiedwith his first relations wi

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