As I write these lines, my daughter is resting near me, lying on a couch. She sleeps, and her young husband is painting by the window. There reigns ideal peace and serenity in this room, which overlooks a great English meadow, so fresh, so green.... It seems almost unbelievable after the years of maddening turmoil I have lived through....
My little Marthe will be a mother in a few months' time.... Her child will one day read these Memoirs. May he, when that time comes, learn—like all other readers of this book, I trust—to understand my life, to forgive whatever weaknesses have been mine, and to love his mother's mother, a woman who has made mistakes in life, but who, God knows, has paid all too dearly for them.
Plan of the first floor of the house in the Impasse Ronsin, where the
double murder was committed. Dotted line shows probable movements
of the assassins.
INDEX
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W, Z
Abyssinia, 87, 100
Adam, Paul, 428
Aden, Gulf of, 86
Africa, 86, 97
Alexandre I., 83
Alexandre II., 83
Alexandre III., 69
Algeria, 88
Alsace, 55, 75
Amsterdam, 61
Annecy, 7
Atbara, 90
Atlantic, 86
Aubusson, 58
Augereau, 95
Austerlitz, 39
Auteuil Steeplechase, 127
Automobile Club, 41
Avelan, Admiral, 69
Bach, J. S., 56, 385
Bahr-el-Ghazal, 86, 94
Bailloud, General, 72
Bailly, 426
Bâle, 12, 19
Ballon d'Alsace, 18
Balzac, 39, 52
Baratier, Captain, 94, 97, 100
Barrye, 44
Bartholdi, 33
Bartolozzi, 42
Bayonne, 7, 20, 21, 22, 24
Baudelaire, 62
Bazar de la Charité, 69
Beauchamp, Marquis de, 87
Beethoven, 7, 21, 43, 51
Bedloe's Isle, 33
Belfort, 1, 8, 12, 15, 51
Belgium, 86, 470
Berlioz, 39
Bernhardt, Sarah, 40
Bernier, 43
Bernstein, 430
Besançon, 28
Biarritz, 20, 22, 37
Billot, General, 88
Bizet, 39
Blondel, 112, 113, 119, 120
Boer War, 83, 97, 128
Boisdeffre, General, 69
Bonheur, Rosa, 57
Bonnat, 43, 44, 45, 46, 54, 74, 75, 106, 110, 111, 118, 141, 409
Bordelongue, 113
Borghese, Pauline, 41, 70
Borneo, 4, 58
Botticelli, 44
Boucher, 58
Bouchor, 88
Boulanger, General, 98, 430
Bourg Saint-Maurice, 71, 73
Brazzaville, 86
Brazil, 4
Briand, 276
Brillat Savarin, 50
Brinvilliers, Mme. de, 117
Brisson, 87, 91, 92, 99, 103
Brown, Sir Thomas, 267
Brummell, 39
Brunetière, 102
Cairo, 97, 100
Carnot, Lazare, 60, 68
Carnot, President, 23, 60, 68, 71, 81, 82
Casablanca, 130
Casimir-Périer, President, 68, 71
Cavaignac, General, 87, 89
Cayenne, 101
Ceram, 58
Cercle de l'Union, 41
Chabrol, Fort, 128, 138
Chalandar, General de, 62
Châlons, 69
Christiani, Baron, 127
Chambre des Députés, 76, 87, 98, 99, 101
Chanoine, General, 92, 99
Chardin, 59
Chateaubriand, Vicomte de, 39
Chauchard, 57, 58
Chopin, 20, 39
Claretie, Jules, 430
Clémenceau, 85, 88, 117, 129, 130
C.G.T. (Confédération Générale du Travail), 129
Congo, 86
Coppée, François, 43, 48, 49, 50, 102
Connaught, Duke of, 9, 92
Corot, 30
Corps Legislatif, 95
Council of the Ten, 114
Cureau, 86
Cuvier, 10, 11, 39
Danton, 426
Daubigny, 30
Declassé, 81, 86, 87, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96, 97, 98, 99, 100, 102, 104, 105, 117
Déroulède, 98, 127, 128
Desmoulins, 426
Devil's Island, 84, 94, 103
Dieulafoy, M. and Mme., 57
Domrémy, 3
Don Quixote, 98
Dreyfus (Captain), 50, 84, 85, 87, 88, 89, 91, 101, 103, 117
Dreyfus Affair, 80, 84, 88, 94, 99, 102, 103, 112, 114, 116, 117, 127
Dufferin, Marquess of, 101
Dujardin-Beaumetz, 60, 400
Dupuy, Charles, 68, 100, 103, 128
Edward VII, 59, 83, 128, 129
Egypt, 86, 92, 100
Eletz, General, 62
Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, 91
Elysée, 37, 73, 74, 75, 76, 78, 79, 92, 99, 102, 106, 107, 110, 111, 113, 117, 121, 130
England, 81, 83, 91, 92, 94, 96, 100, 459, 462
Entente Cordiale, 129
Esterhazy, Major, 84, 85, 87, 88
Eugénie, Empress, 40
Faure, President, 18, 19, 70-97, 99-103, 106-127, 131, 137, 149, 234, 250, 342, 357, 404
Faure, Mlle. Lucie, 88, 118
Fashoda, 83, 84, 86, 87, 90-95, 96-100, 104, 105, 117
Fallières, President, 129, 141, 142, 144
Ferry, Jules, 68, 128
Fontainebleau, 57
Fournier, Admiral, 82
Fragonard, 58
France, Anatole, 51, 52
Franco-Prussian War, 8, 80, 92
Franco-Russian Alliance, 69, 80, 82, 96, 120
Freycinet, de, 100
Friedland, 39
Gainsborough, 59
Gambetta, 128
Gautier, Theophile, 39
Gervais, Admiral, 60, 69
Girardin, Marquis de, 103
Glück, 7
Gobelins, 38
Goron, 249-251
Gortschakoff, 83
Gounod, 12, 34, 101
Goya, 59
Grand Guignol, 60
Greuze, 39
Groult, 57-59
Guérin, Jules, 128
Guyana, 84
Hague, the, 61
Hannibal, 4
Hanotaux, 70, 74, 87, 96
Hâvre, 81, 88
Haydn, 85
Henner, 54-56
Henry, Colonel, 84, 89, 91
Heredia, J. M. de, 49
Holland, 61, 470
Hoppner, 59
Hugo, Victor, 39
India, 97
Italy, 28, 470
Institut, 33, 52
Janssen, 133
Japy, General, 62, 72
Jaurès, 117
Jena, 39
Jibuti, 100
Joan of Arc, 3
Jockey Club, 40
Journal Officiel, 120
Kant, 134
Kapurthala, 70
Khartum, 90-94, 97
Kilimanjaro, 4
Kitchener, Sir Herbert, 90, 91, 93, 100
Kronstadt, 60, 69, 72, 102
Lafitte, 40
Laferrière, 88
La Fontaine, 39
Lalique, 106, 145
Lamy, Major, 106, 107
Lannes, Marechal, 39
La Paz, 61
La Tour, 58
La Traversette, 71, 72
Lawrence, 59
Lépine, 88
Lesseps, F. de, 34
Le Gall, 106, 110, 112, 113
Légion d'Honneur, 88
Liotard, 86, 102
Liszt, 10
Lockroy, 88, 96
London County Council, 129
Longchamps, 70
Lorraine, 55
Loti, Pierre, 52, 53
Loubet, President, 128, 129
Louis-Philippe, 13, 103
Louvre, Museum, 59
Lucretia Borgia, 117
Lucullus, 5
Lulli, 7
L'Aurore, 85, 89
L'Echo de Paris, 214, 226, 231, 234, 274, 279, 370
L'Eclair, 323
Le Figaro, 430
Le Gaulois, 269, 273
L'Intransigeant, 95
Le Journal, 466
Le Petit Journal, 273
Le Petit Parisien, 247
La Presse, 405
Paris-Journal, 300
Le Temps, 88, 93, 273, 412
Le Matin, 189, 217, 231-235, 239-241, 256, 259-261, 274, 284-286, 300, 301, 310, 316, 317, 318-326, 343, 415
Madagascar, 81
Madrid, 60
Maeterlinck, 66
Marchand, Major, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 100-102
Mars, Mlle., 39, 40
Massenet, 43, 47, 48, 73, 101, 409
Mediterranean, 97
Meissonier, 21, 25, 30, 33
Méline, 74, 84, 87, 88
Menelik, Emperor, 87
Mercier, General, 88
Metternich, Prince, 104
Metternich, Princess, 40
Meudon Observatory, 132
Mexico, 40
Michelangelo, 44
Molière, 52
Monaco, 236
Monod, 12
Monson, Sir Edmund, 93, 94, 98-101
Montmartre, 39, 46
Mont Valerien, 89
Morgue, 52
Morny, Duc de, 40, 41, 430
Morocco, 102, 105
Moscow, 5, 28
Mozart, 7, 85
Mulhausen, 18, 24
Muravieff, Count, 96, 97
Mürger, 39
Musset, A. de, 39
Napoleon I., 3, 4, 11, 13, 16, 70, 75, 76, 83, 235
Napoleon III., 40, 41, 83, 430
Nancy, 12
Nattier, 59
Négrier, General de, 92
New York, 33
Nicholas II. (Czar), 67, 72, 102, 128
Niger, 104
Nile, 86, 91, 92, 98, 100, 104
Notre Dame (Paris), 33, 61
Nouveau Cercle, 41
Nubar Pasha, 92
Offenbach, 39, 56
Omdurman, 90, 91
Opéra, 37, 69, 73
Opéra Comique, 48, 101
Oppert, Julius, 56
Orinoco, 4
Orleans, Duke of, 88, 93, 96, 103
Orsay, d', 38, 40
Pacific, 58
Païva, La, 40
Panama, 68, 127
Pascal, 20, 52
Pasteur, 34
Patrie Française, League, 50, 102
Pays, Mme., 87
Père Lachaise, 39
Peterhof, 72
Petit Saint Bernard, 71
Peytral, 87
Picquart, Colonel, 84, 85, 93
Popocatapetl, 4
Poubelle, 60
Pressensé, de, 88
Punch, 97
Puvis de Chavannes, 14
Pyrenees, 46
Rachel, Mlle., 40
Racine, 7
Raeburn, 59
Raffet, 3
Rambert, Eugène, 61
Rameau, 7
Red Sea, 86
Récamier, Mme., 39
Reinach, J., 117
Roland, Mme., 426
Rennes, 103
Renan, 39, 43
Revue des Deux Mondes, 102
Reyer, 48, 49
Renals, Sir Joseph, 69
Reynolds, 59
Ribot, 68, 87
Robert, Hubert, 59
Rochefort, 95, 430, 431
Rodin, 44
Roget, General, 127
Rostand, E., 52
Roujon, 75
Ruskin, 23
Russia, 6, 28, 60, 69, 72, 94, 96, 98
Salisbury, Lord, 92, 104
Salon, 74
Sarrien, 87, 91
Sasse, Marie, 40
Saut du Doubs, 18
Savoy, 71-73
Sainte Chapelle, 23, 343
Saint Cloud, 34, 40
Saint Jean de Luz, 46
Saint Petersburg, 69, 72, 96, 120
Saint Vincent de Paul, 43
Scheurer Kestner, 84
Sem, 430
Senegal, 86
Sinaïa, 61
Secrétan, 61
Sobat, 100
Strasburg, 23, 33
Strauss, Richard, 66
Sudan, 90, 92
Sueh, 86
Suez Canal, 34
Sylva, Carmen, 61
Talleyrand, 40, 41, 93, 104
Tangiers, 105
Tenniel, Sir John, 97
Thiers, 13, 39
Tornielli, 127
Tuileries, 40
Turner, 59
Ubanghi, Upper, 86
Urusoff, Prince, 102
Venice, 114
Verlaine, 374
Versailles, 68, 127
Victor, Prince Napoleon, 96, 103
Victoria, Queen, 34, 69, 76, 92
Viollet, le Duc, 6
Voguë, de, 52
Voltaire, 52
Wadi-Halfa, 86
Wagner, 7
Waldeck-Rousseau, 128
Waterloo, 76
Watteau, 58
Wattignies, 68
Witte, Count, 94
Zola, 50-52, 85, 87, 88
Zurlinden, General, 90-92