The life of the emperor Francis Joseph

INDEX

Adamovics, Fräulein Wilhelmina, viii, 107, 322, 326, 327, 329
Albert, Archduke, 134, 136, 138-140, 149, 152-155, 162, 192, 234, 242
Albert, Prince Consort, 135
Alençon, Sophie, Duchesse d’, under restraint at Graetz, 98, 169;
affianced to Ludwig II. of Bavaria, 161, 188;
photographed with Count Holnstein, 188;
the engagement broken off—married to Duc d’Alençon, 189;
her death, 161, 191
Alexander I., Czar of Russia, 2, 32, 57, 70
Ambert, General, Cinq Epées, 37
Amsterdam, 119
Andrassy, Count Julius, 146, 156, 210, 247
Andrews, Mrs. Clarence, 224
Anjou, Charles of, 20
Aroyo, Don Agostino, 253
Arragon, Ferdinand of, 23
Assassins, Les, ballet by Archduke John Salvator, 233
Augustenburg, Duchess of, 189
Augustine, Princess, 286, 292
Austria, a medley of races, not a nation, vi;
its history only to be understood in conjunction with the personality of its sovereign, vi, vii;
its position in the Holy Roman Empire, 2;
the formation of the Empire its chief problem, 4;
a Teuton Power when Francis Joseph commenced his reign—its Italian provinces, 7;
opposed to the liberal ideas of the period, 33;
all its statesmen policemen at heart, 34;
the revolution in Lombardy, 36-38;
the popular demand for a constitution, 40;
risings in Vienna, 41;
wonderfully favoured by accidents, 54;
bungling policy of, in connection with the Crimean War, 70;
at war with France and Italy, 123-130;
like all Germans, can only govern in a state of siege, 124, 125;
tortured her Italian subjects in prison, 125, 126;
an Italian’s opinions of, 126, 127;
at war with Prussia, 134-137;
surrenders Venetia to Italy, 134;
her attitude in the Franco-Prussian War, 148-157;
her future not in Italy or Germany, but in the Balkans—occupies Bosnia, 158;
her coming troubles in the Balkan States, 342-346
Austrian Alpine Club, 125
Austrian Court of the Nineteenth Century, see Rumbold, Sir Horace
Bach, Alexander A., Baron von, 66
Baden, 162
Balfour, Jabez, 257
Baltazzi, Alexander, 201, 211, 214, 224
Baltazzi, Evelyn, 201
Baltazzi, Hector, 201
Ban of Croatia, the, see Jellaçiç, Baron Von
Barclay’s brewery, Marshal Haynau’s reception by the draymen at, 61-64
Barr, Robert, 219
Barrès, Maurice, 79
Batthyany, Elemar, 57
Batthyany, Louis, 57, 58
Bavaria, 155
Bazaine, Marshal, 173
Beck, Baroness von, on the cynicism of the Court during the Hungarian War, 59
Beckford, William, 190
Benedek, General, 135-142
Berlin, 134, 155
Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, interviews Frau Schratt on the rumour of the morganatic marriage of Francis Joseph, 109;
story of the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in, 219, 220
Berry, Duchesse de, 238
Bertha, Count Alexander von, 82
Berzeviczy, General, 263
Beust, F. F. von, 83, 155
Biarritz, 133, 264, 266
Bismarck, Prince, 68, 132, 133, 135, 140, 162, 272
Bohemia, 46, 51, 136, 155
Boigne, Mme. de, 88
Bomba, see Francis II., King of Naples
Bombelles, Count, 218
Bosnia, Austrian occupation of, 158
Brabant, Marie, Duchess of, 23
Bratfisch, coachman to the Crown Prince Rudolf, 219
Bruckenau, 266
Brussels, 63, 108, 197, 198, 294, 322
Buda-Pesth, 52, 53, 146, 161, 211, 239, 287
Buenos Ayres, 255
Burg, Charles, 71, 291;
see also Archduke Ferdinand Charles
Byron, Lord, 6;
Don Juan, 6
Cairo, 203
Calvi, Colonel, 126, 127
Capet, Hugues, 20
Cap Martin, 119, 264
Capua, Prince of, 237
Carlos, Don, 322
Castiglioni, Countess, 123
Castlereagh, Lord, 5
Caux, 266
Cavour, Count, 122, 123
Chaco, 255
Charles II. of Spain, 24
Charles III. of Spain, 21
Charles V., Emperor, 24
Charles X. of France, 6
Charles, Archduke, 24, 27
Charles, Duke of Parma, 317
Charles of Lichtenstein, 189
Charles Albert, King of Sardinia, 36, 51, 122, 123, 130
Charles Ferdinand, Archduke, 241
Charles Louis, Archduke, brother of the Emperor, 48, 274, 301
Charles Salvator, Archduke, 278, 283
Charles the Bold of Burgundy, 23
Charlotte, Archduchess, wife of Archduke Maximilian: unpopularity in Venice, 127, 146, 165;
her ambition causes her to persuade Maximilian to accept the crown of Mexico, 165-167, 170;
seeks Napoleon’s influence over the pacte de famille, 169;
keeps up Maximilian’s spirits during the voyage, 172, 173;
returns to Europe to persuade Napoleon to leave the Army of Occupation in Mexico, 175-179;
her mind was already unhinged before she left Mexico, 177;
heard of Sadowa on her arrival—was not met at the station—Empress Eugénie came to call on her, 178;
her interview with Napoleon, 178, 179;
goes to her old home at Miramar, 179;
and thence to Rome, 179, 180;
suffers from mental alienation, 180-181;
taken back to Miramar, 181;
had occasional glimmerings of sanity, 185
Chotek, Countess Sophie, 293, 300, 303-309, 311, 313
Christina, Archduchess, 27
Cinq Epées, see Ambert, General
Corona, 182
Corriera della Sera, Count Nigra’s account of the Crown Prince Rudolf’s death in, 221
Cracow, 233
Crenneville, Count, 137, 138
Crimean War, 70
Cristina, Queen of Spain, 238
Cromer, 119
Custozza, 37, 51, 134, 234
Czanadez, Marshal, 248, 249
Czuber, Fräulein, 288-291
Daily Mail on Baron Ernest Wallburg, 287
Darwin, Chas., 11
Deák, Ferencz, 83, 144
Diaz, Porfirio, 174, 182
Domenech, Emmanuel, History of Mexico, 173
Eclair, L’, account of the Meyerling tragedy in, 223
Eitel Fritz, Prince, 298, 301
Eleanor, Archduchess, 288
Eleanor of Austria, wife of Francis I. of France, 26
Elisa, the circus-rider, 97
Elizabeth, Archduchess, at the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 48;
sets her cap at Francis Joseph, 86;
burned to death at Schönnbrunn, 192
Elizabeth, Archduchess, daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf, 293, 294, 297-299, 301
Elizabeth, Empress, wife of Francis Joseph, making love to Elemar Batthyany, 58;
the tragedy of her death at Geneva, 60;
not trained for her position—stories of her early years, 73;
her first meeting with Francis Joseph—his proposal, 74;
her betrothal, 75;
the marriage a failure, 77;
the impenetrability of her character—her melancholy, 79;
her beauty and popularity with all classes, 80, 82;
factors in their estrangement, 81;
a valuable asset in the government of the Empire, 81-83;
did not get on with her mother-in-law, nor with the Archduchess Elizabeth, 86;
her free-and-easy manners, 87;
her instructions to Countess Marie Larisch, whom she chose to live with her as confidante, 90;
her name coupled with that of Count Hunyadi, 91;
her adieux with Capt. Middleton, 93;
comes to Countess Marie’s bedroom at night to dissuade her from marrying Count N.
Esterhazy, 93;
her own experiences allegorised in a fairy-tale, 94, 95;
her roving disposition, her melancholy and cynicism, 96;
her attention to the toilette, and daring horsemanship, 97;
the insanity in her family, 97, 98;
The Martyrdom of an Empress, an untrustworthy life of her, 99-105;
never used a gun—yachting in the Ionian Islands, 101;
not at all musical—never rode alone, 102;
introduces Frau Schratt to the Emperor, 104, 105, 109, 110;
supposed reasons for her trip to Madeira, 116, 117;
her indifference as to the training of the Crown Prince, 116;
her constant wanderings and ceremonial appearances at Court, 116-119;
specimens of her poetic pessimism, 119, 120;
her popularity in Hungary helped the settlement, 143, 144;
her murder, 162;
refuses to believe her brother Ludwig mad—suggests a plan for his escape, 190;
did not believe him dead, 191;
said to have written reminiscences, 260;
her outlook on life and her religious beliefs, 261, 262;
M. Paoli’s account of her when in France, 263-265;
omens preceding her assassination, 265-267;
stabbed at Geneva, 268
Elizabeth of Hungary, Saint, 83
Elizabeth, Princess, granddaughter of the Emperor, 292-293
Elizabeth, Princess, of Bavaria, see Elizabeth, Empress
Ernest, Archduke, 239
Escobedo, 182
Essays and Reviews, 259
Esterhazy, Félicie, 41
Esterhazy, Count Nicholas, 93, 120, 143
Esterhazy, Valentine, 70
Eugéne, Archduke, 278, 279, 283
Eugénie, Empress, 118, 152, 178, 264
Faucigny-Lucinge, Mme., 240, 241
Faye, M. Jacques La, his life of the Empress, 99
Federal Assembly, the, 3
Ferdinand, Emperor, uncle of Francis Joseph, 22;
his character, 42, 46;
his abdication, 47-51
Ferdinand, King of Bulgaria, 318
Ferdinand, Grand Duke of Tuscany, 220, 221, 323
Ferdinand VI. of Spain, 24
Ferdinand Charles, Archduke, 288-291, 301
Ferdinand of Este, Archduke, 47, 48
Ferenzy, Mdlle., 103
France, war with, 123-130
Francis I. of France, 26
Francis II., Emperor, grandfather of Francis Joseph, 21, 22
Francis II., King of Naples, 6, 125
Francis Charles, Archduke, father of Francis Joseph, 22, 29, 48, 49, 69
Francis Ferdinand, Archduke, 269, 288, 293, 300;
nephew to the Emperor—delicate boy and grew up delicate, 301;
educated amongst Jesuits—medical treatment has its effect on him, 302;
is expected to marry Archduchess Gabrielle, 303;
but was courting a lady-in-waiting, Countess Sophie Chotek, 303-305;
Archduchess Isabella’s discovery of their affection, 305, 306;
the Emperor sanctions the marriage as a morganatic one, 305;
the Archduke’s oath, 309;
possible ways of evading it, 311-313;
his plan for settlement of Balkan troubles, 344-346;
his morganatic marriage stands in the way of the natural succession after him, 348, 349
Francis Joseph I., Emperor of Austria, materials for a full biography not available, viii;
short-comings essential to previous biographies, viii-x;
the difficulties with which he was met on ascending the throne, 3;
the formation of the Austrian Empire the central problem of his reign, 4;
the risings in Italy and Hungary in the beginning of his reign, 7;
his present popularity, 7, 8;
to be considered both as Emperor and Habsburg, 8, 9, 18;
the only sane member of the family, 15, 16;
the tragedies of his position, 17, 18;
his ancestors, 20-22;
and collateral branches of the family, 23-26;
ascends the throne at eighteen, the rising hope of a decadent family, 22;
his birth and parentage, 29;
his education and love for his people, 30;
his first engagement with the army, 37, 38;
his return to his studies, 38;
at his uncle’s abdication, 48;
succeeds to the throne, 49;
the impression he had made in Hungary on an early visit did not insure popularity, 52;
was bound to follow the advice of Windischgraetz and Schwartzenberg, 52;
Hungarians refuse to recognise his authority till he takes the constitutional oath, 53;
cut in the hunting field by Elemar Batthyany—was he responsible for the atrocities of the Hungarian War? 58;
nicknamed at birth “the child of the gallows,” 64;
his affront to Napoleon III., 65;
and its result, 66, 123;
his travels through his dominions—releases political prisoners—an attempt on his life, 67;
Bismarck’s opinion of him, 68;
the King of Belgium’s, 68, 69;
Lady Westmorland’s description of him, 69;
his romantic marriage, 71-76;
first sees the Princess Elizabeth by accident, 73;
his proposal, 74;
their betrothal, 75;
his marriage a failure, 77;
the obviousness of his personality, 78, 79;
the happiness of his early married days, 80, 81;
factors in their estrangement, 81;
he comes to visit the Empress whilst she is saying adieu to Capt. Middleton, 92;
his rooms far from those of the Empress, 92;
his flirtations make no startling tale, 104;
his friendship with Frau Schratt, 104-113;
his love of field sports, 113-115;
story of his attentions to a peasant girl, 116;
at war with France and Italy, 123-130;
summons Sardinia to disarm, 124;
took part himself in the war, 128, 129;
his sullenness over the terms of peace, 129, 130;
Italian hatred of him, 131;
refuses Italy’s offer to buy Venetia, 133;
Offers to cede Venetia if Italy will leave him free to deal with Prussia—has to surrender it as result of the defeat at Sadowa, 134;
his treatment of General Benedek, 135-141;
sends for Deák, 144;
and comes to terms with Hungary, 144, 145;
his coronation at Buda-Pesth, 145, 146;
he was stronger after Sadowa than before, 146;
in negotiation with Napoleon on the Triple Alliance, 149;
and with Victor Emmanuel, 150;
in public affairs has the luck which saves him from his blunders, 160;
in private is spared no sorrows, 161-163;
his attitude as head of the family to Maximilian’s acceptance of the throne of Mexico, 167-171;
helpless to aid Maximilian, 180;
he might excuse himself had he taken no steps to aid him, 183, 184;
but he did all he could without avail, 184-186;
rumour that he was father of Mary Vetsera, 229;
his reception of the news of the Meyerling tragedy, 230;
his displeasure with Archduke John Salvator, 236, 242, 243;
his last communication with him, 248;
sends a cruiser to search the coast of Chili for John Orth, 254;
sometimes visited the Empress at Cap Martin, 264;
his reception of the news of the Empress’s death, 269-271;
his varying attitude to morganatic marriages, and marriages between the Habsburgs and commoners, 286-293;
permits the marriage of Princess Stéphanie to Count Lonyay, 294-296;
and of her daughter Elizabeth to Otto von Windischgraetz, 297-299;
his anxiety for his nephew, Francis Ferdinand to marry, 303;
he sanctions the marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek as morganatic—his speech to the Privy Council, 307, 308;
he retains more mediæval ideas than any ruler of to-day, 309, 310;
his interview with Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 328;
his long reign and great age, 341;
his unique reign, 350
Francis Joseph I., His Life and Times, see Mahaffy, R. P.
Francois Joseph Intime, see Weindel, H. de
Franco-Prussian War, 148-157
Frederick, Archduke, 303, 305
Frederick IV., Emperor, 23
Frederick August, King of Saxony, 319
Frederick the Great, 21, 32, 57
Frederick, Landgrave of Furstenberg, 48
“Fried Fish,” see Bratfisch
Frossard, General, 153, 169
Fugger, Countess, 337
Gabrielle, Archduchess, 303, 304
Galippe, Dr., L’hérédité des Stigmates de Dégénérescence, 10, 12, 13
Geneva, 60, 267
Georgei, 54
German Federation, the, 3, 132, 134
Giornale d’Italia, Victor Emmanuel’s letter to Napoleon in, 150
Giron, M., 322, 332-334, 336
Gisela, Archduchess, daughter of Francis Joseph, 101, 102, 107, 286, 292
Gladstone, W. E., 126, 160
Gödöllo, 90
Graber, Captain, 56
Graetz, 98, 138, 140
Gramont, Duc de, 154, 155
Greece, Isles of, 119
Grunne, Count, 48
Guizot, F. P. G., 35, 36, 40
Habsburg, House of, its characteristics essential to the understanding of Austrian history, vi, vii;
the eccentricities of its members, viii;
marriage of a daughter of, to Napoleon, 2;
eugenist’s opinions of, 10-13;
revolt from family traditions, 14, 15;
the effect upon the head of the house, 16-19;
their origin and pedigree, 20-23;
inter-marriages with the Spanish and Portuguese branches, 23-25;
physical characteristics, 26, 27;
some members have justified their liaisons by the Emperor’s friendship with Frau Schratt, 107;
recent tragedies in the family, 161, 162;
the difference between their madness and that of the Wittelsbachs, 188;
some of the family who have tried to be ordinary men, 273;
the only characteristic common to them all, 282;
their centrifugal marriages, 284-286;
their superiority to the rest of mankind, 309;
what will be the future of the house? 347
Habsburg Monarchy, The, see Steed, H. W.
Halbthurn, 305
Halévy, Leon, M. et Madame Cardinal, 202, 211
Haynau, Marshal, the cruelties of his campaign in Hungary, 55-60;
his command withdrawn from him, 61;
his adventure at Barclay’s brewery, 61-63
Heiligenkreuz, Abbey of, 215
Heinrich, Herr, 249, 251
Helen, Princess, of Bavaria, afterwards Princess of Thurn and Taxis, 72-75, 98, 100
Henrietta, consort of Leopold II., King of the Belgians, 197, 286
Henry, Archduke, 238, 276
Hoffmann, Leopoldine, 238, 276
Hohenlohe Schillingfürst, Prince Gottfried zu, 288
Holnstein, Count, 188, 189
Holy Alliance, the, 3-5
Holy Roman Empire, its collapse, 1;
the impossibility of reviving it, 2
Hoyos, Count, 218, 230
Hübner, Count, his amazement that anyone should value nationality, 34, 35;
his account of Metternich’s resignation, 43;
his account of the proceedings at Ferdinand’s abdication, 47-49
Hungarian War (1849), 54-60
Hungary, 40, 45, 46, 51, 53-58, 82, 83, 143-147, 156, 160, 211, 225
Hunyadi, Count, 91
Iglau, 322
In-breeding, results of, 13-15
Indépendance Belge on M. Leopold Wulfing (Archduke Leopold Ferdinand), 330, 331
Ionian Islands, 101
Isabella, Archduchess, 297, 303-306
Ischl, 73, 103, 108, 266
Italy, War with, 123-130;
offers to buy Venetia, 132;
Venetia surrendered to, 134
Jarras, 153
Jecker, Baron, 165
Jellaçiç, Baron von, Ban of Croatia, 46, 48, 52, 54
Joanna the Mad, 23, 24
John, Archduke, 21, 238
John, Field-Marshal Baron, 139
John Salvator, Archduke of Tuscany, afterwards John Orth, viii, 15, 71, 107, 162, 210;
the first of the family rebels, a man of many accomplishments, 232;
his musical compositions and military pamphlets, 233;
his liberalism, 234;
his close friendship with the Crown Prince, 234, 235;
Countess Marie Larisch’s account of his parting with her, 235;
account by Princess Louisa of Tuscany, 235, 236, 252;
his love affairs with an Englishwoman, 236-239;
and with Milly Stübel, 240-243;
his interview with the Emperor, 242, 243;
had he been plotting with Rudolf? 244-247;
the uncertainty of his marriage with Milly Stübel, 247, 248;
the Emperor’s last communication with him, 248;
his farewell to his friends, 248-251;
his last voyage, 253;
was he lost at sea? 254;
legends of his being seen since, 255-257
Johnson, Andrew, President of the United States, 174
Joseph II., Emperor, 21, 31
Joseph, Archduke, 48, 162, 278, 292
Juarez, Benito, 174, 182, 183, 185
Karolyi, Countess, her curse on Francis Joseph, 60, 68, 71, 76, 122, 142, 161, 186
Keystone of Empire, The, v
Kisch, Baron, 108
Kissingen, 119, 266
Kloss, Alfons von, 288
Kölner Zeitung on Austrian cruelty in Hungary, 58
Kossuth, L., 40, 50
Ladislas, Archduke, 162, 192
Laeken, 197
Lainz, 266
Larisch, Countess Marie, more in the Empress’s confidence than anyone else, 79;
a story of the Empress before she was her companion, 84;
says that the Emperor was the first to be dissatisfied with the marriage, 89;
the Empress’s instructions to her when she sent for her to be her companion, 90;
she prevents the Emperor from entering the Empress’s room whilst she is saying adieu to Capt. Middleton, 92;
she is asked in marriage by Count Nicholas Esterhazy, and the Empress dissuades her from accepting him, 93;
she repeats a fairy-tale told her by the Empress, 94, 95;
her corrections of The Martyrdom of an Empress, 100-103;
she tells of the Empress’s introduction of Frau Schratt to the Emperor, 104, 105, 109;
on the Empress’s indifference as to the training of the Crown Prince, 116;
her description of the difference between the madness of the Habsburgs and the Wittelsbachs, 188;
her account of the Meyerling tragedy, 194, 197, 204-207, 210, 214, 216, 217;
her refutation of an account of the tragedy in the Berliner Lokal Anzeiger, 219, 220;
her own account, 223, 224;
her account of the Archduke John Sebastian’s farewell, 235, 253
Larisch, Countess Marie, My Past, v, 57, 84, 85, 90, 91, 97, 104, 105, 194, 197, 204-207, 210, 214, 216, 217, 235, 253
Latour, Austrian War Minister, 55
Laxenburg, 101, 298
Lebœuf, Marshal, 153
Lebrun, 153
Leipzig, Battle of the Nations at, 1
Leopold I., King of the Belgians, 68
Leopold II., Emperor, 21
Leopold II., King of the Belgians, 196, 197, 286, 294-296
Leopold, Archduke, 280
Leopold Ferdinand, Archduke, viii, 15, 71, 107, 129, 232, 252, 299, 315, 322, 327-332
L’hérédité des Stigmates de Dégénérescence, see Galippe, Dr.
Libenyi, attempts to assassinate the Emperor, 67, 80
Linz, 234
Lobkowitz, Prince, 48
Lombardy, 34, 38, 46, 125, 165
London, 119, 243, 247
L’Origine du Type familial de la Maison de Habsburg, see Rubbrecht, Dr. O.
Lorraine, Francis, Duke of, 20, 21
Loschek, valet to the Crown Prince Rudolf, 219, 221
Louis IX. of France (St. Louis), 20
Louis XIV., 341
Louis XVI., 278
Louis, Archduke, 43
Louis Philippe, 36
Louis Salvator, Archduke, 277, 283
Louis Victor, Archduke, brother of the Emperor, 180, 274
Louisa, Princess of Tuscany, viii, 15, 27, 129, 220, 222, 232, 235, 236, 239, 241, 242, 244, 251-255, 277, 299, 315-327, 332-340
Louisa, Princess of Tuscany, My Own Story, v, 318, 319
Louise, Princess, of Saxe-Coburg, 197, 256, 294, 321, 339
Luccheni assassinates the Empress Elizabeth, 268
Lucchesi-Palli, 238
Ludwig I. of Bavaria, 25, 72
Ludwig II., King of Bavaria, his madness, 72;
affianced to Sophie, afterwards Duchess d’Alençon, 161;
breaks off his engagement, 187-189;
smashes her bust, 189;
his solitary life in fantastic splendour—the Empress refused to believe in his
madness, and was ready to assist his escape, 190;
his suicide, 162, 191
Luxemburg, 149
Madersbach, Mme. de, 56
Madiera, 91, 116, 117
Magenta, Battle of, 66, 124
Mahaffy, R. P., Francis Joseph I., His Life and Times, v
Majorca, 277
Maria Dorothea, Archduchess, 48, 286
Maria Henrietta, Archduchess, 288
Maria Theresa, Empress, 20, 31, 57
Marianna, Empress, 47, 49
Marie of Burgundy, 26
Marie-Amélie, Queen, consort of Louis-Philippe, 177
Marie-Antoinette, 21
Marie Louise, Archduchess, wife of Napoleon I., 26
Martyrdom of an Empress, The, vi, 99-105
Mary I. of England, 24
Mathilde, Princess of Saxony, 196
Matilda, Archduchess, 162
Matilda, Duchess, in Bavaria, see Trani, Countess de
Mattatich, Count, 321
Maximilian, Archduke, brother of Francis Joseph, afterwards Emperor of Mexico, at the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 47, 48;
the tragedy of his death, 60, 161, 163, 164, 185;
his unpopularity in Venice, 127, 146, 165;
invited to be Emperor of Mexico, 164;
unfitted for post—the tool of Napoleon and the Mexican exiles—dismissed from his government of Venetia, 165:
retires to Miramar and writes poetry—egged on by his wife to accept the Mexican throne, 166;
stipulates for French military support, 167;
the pacte de famille, 167, 168;
he objects to renouncing his Austrian rights, 168;
the pacte signed at Miramar, 169, 170;
his gloomy forebodings, 170, 171;
Pius IX. blesses the enterprise, 171, 172;
his wife keeps up his spirits on the voyage, 172;
looking to the ceremonial aspect of the enterprise, and the disillusionment, 173;
French Army of Occupation withdrawn, 173, 175, 182;
nothing but pride prevented his abdication, 181;
exclaims that he is free when the French Army had gone—he goes to Queretaro and is captured, 182;
he had instructed Miramon to condemn Juarez to death, 183;
is shot in the public square at Queretaro, 185;
his body brought to Europe and buried in the tombs of the Habsburgs, 187
Maximilian I. of Bavaria, grandfather of Francis Joseph, 22, 29
Maximilian, Duke, in Bavaria, 72, 75, 100, 189
Mazzini, G., 344
Mélanie, Princess, see Metternich, Princess
Mendel, Henrietta, 188, 276
Mérode, Cléo de, 196, 286
Metternich, Clemens, Prince, the author of the Holy Alliance, 4;
instructs Francis Joseph in statecraft, 30;
a greater man than any whom he served, 32;
a policeman at heart, 34;
the object of popular hostility, 41;
his resignation, 42;
Archduchess Sophie’s letter to him, 44;
his reply—his flight to England, 45;
had been concerned in advising Ferdinand’s abdication, 47
Metternich, Princess Mélanie, 35, 36, 39-44, 50
Metternich, Count Richard, a special constable in London, 43, 155;
Austrian Ambassador in Paris, 155
Mexico, 60, 161, 163-186
Meyerling, 60, 93, 118, 161, 187, 194, 207, 208, 211-216, 218-231, 242, 245, 246, 266, 269
Middleton, Capt. “Bay,” 91
Miguel of Braganza, 203
Milan, 36, 128, 146
Minghetti, Marco, 152
Miramar, 165, 166, 169-171, 179, 181
Miramon, General, 182, 183
Moltke, Baron von, 136, 140
Montez, Lola, 25, 72
Morny, Comte de, 165
My Own Story, see Louisa, Princess of Tuscany
My Past, see Larisch, Countess Marie
Napoleon I., 2, 22, 24, 26, 27
Napoleon III., 43, 65, 66, 123-125, 128-130, 149-151, 154, 165, 167, 169, 171, 175, 177-179
Nash, Eveleigh, 247, 256, 257
Nauheim, 266
Neue Freie Presse, a bogus advertisement in its agony column, 108;
on the character of the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 327, 328
Nigra, Count, 156;
his account of the death of the Crown Prince Rudolf, 220-222, 224, 227
Norwegian Fiords, 119
Novara, 51
O’Donnell, 80
Olmütz, 44, 47, 153
Orleans, Duc d’, 286
Orleans, Duchess d’, see Maria Dorothea, Archduchess
Orth, John, see John Salvator, Archduke
Ott, Baron, 256
Otten, Frederick, 256
Otto, Archduke, 27, 280-282, 285, 288, 301
Otto, King of Bavaria, 25, 72
Paar, Count, 269
Palacio, Riva, 182
Palacky, F., his protest for the Slavs against their position as inferior to the Hungarians, 145
Palmerston, Lord, 54
Paoli, Xavier, 263-265, 267
Paris, 119, 153, 161, 191, 264
Parma, 327
Pedro, Dom, 319
Pedro of Saxe-Coburg, 189
Philip II. of Spain, 24
Philip III. of Spain, 24
Philip V. of Spain, 24
Philip of Saxe-Coburg, 197, 218
Philippe le Beau, 23
Pilsen, 153
Pius IX., 108, 111, 151, 169, 171, 172, 180
Pius X., 260
Plombières, 123
Podanitzky, Baron, 55
Port Said, 236
Possenhofen, 103
Prégny, 267
Presburg, 303
Private Life of Two Emperors, The, William II. of Germany and Francis Joseph of Austria, vi, 245
Prussia, 4, 130-137, 148-157
Puebla, 177, 179
Queretaro, 60, 161, 163, 182, 183, 266
Radetzky, Marshal, 36-38, 45, 46, 80, 122, 136
Rainer, Archduke, 275, 276, 283
Regules, 182
Reichstadt, Duc de, 22
Revolution of 1848, the;
In Italy, 36-38, 45, 46, 51
In Austria, 39-42, 45, 46, 50-53
In Hungary, 40, 45, 46, 51, 54
In Germany, 40, 41
In Bohemia, 46, 51
Rio Quarto, 255
Ritter, Fräulein, 330
Robert, Duke of Parma, 317
Roll, Fräulein, 116
Rome, 60, 108, 151, 171, 180, 181, 306
Rothschild, Baroness Adolphe, 267
Rothschild, Nathan Meyer, 61
Rubbrecht, Dr. Oswald, L’Origine du Type familial de la Maison de Habsburg, 10-12
Rudolf, Archduke, 279
Rudolf, Crown Prince, reproaches Countess Marie Larisch for acting as go-between for the Empress, 90;
errors about, in The Martyrdom of an Empress, 101-103;
directed to write to General Benedek, 140;
his the only life between Maximilian and the throne of Austria, 168;
the fatality of the name Rudolf—his literary and artistic tastes, 193;
his quarrel with the German Emperor—conspiring for the throne of Hungary, 194, 206, 210;
capable of both affability and hauteur, 194, 195;
popular with the people, a spoiled child and precociously cynical, 195;
whilst seeking a wife had a lady as provisional companion travelling with him—rejects the suit of Princess Mathilde of Saxony and asks the hand of Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, 196;
neglects her for Mary Vetsera, 200, 201;
whom he says he could not shake off, 203;
asks Countess Marie Larisch to bring Mary to him at the Hofburg, says he is in political danger, hands the Countess a steel casket, 204;
the person to whom it is to be delivered, 205;
his hunting box at Meyerling, 208;
the Princess taken there, 208, 209;
the Princess follows him when he goes to visit Mary Vetsera and changes his carriage for hers, 209;
his death, 60, 161, 212—
and the various official accounts, 212-214;
his last letter, 216;
various accounts of the tragedy, 218-231;
his association with Archduke John Salvator, 234, 235;
was the latter concerned in his death? 246
Rumbold, Sir Horace, The Austrian Court of the Nineteenth Century, v, 299
Ruskberg, 56
Russia, 156
Russo-Turkish War, 158
Saarbrücken, 154
Sadowa, Battle of, 134, 137, 144, 146, 151, 160, 174, 176, 179
Saint-Nazaire, 178
Salzburg, 254, 274, 321
San Remo, 266
Santa Lucia, Battle of, 37
Sardinia, 124, 129
Schleswig-Holstein, 125, 133
Schlictling, General, von, 136
Schönnbrunn, 29, 109, 192, 266, 341
Schratt, Frau Katti, 104-113, 162, 271, 289, 350
Schwartzenberg, Felix, 45, 47, 48, 52, 58
Seefried zu Buttenheim, Baron Otto von, 292, 293
Servia, and Austria’s Servian subjects, 159, 342-345
Siècle, Le, on Frau Schratt’s mission to Rome, 108
Slav problem not solved by the granting of the Hungarian Constitution, 145, 158
Smith, Penny, 237
Sobieski, John, King of Poland, 70
Sodich, Captain, 253
Solferino, Battle of, 66, 124
Sophia, Archduchess, mother of Francis Joseph, 22, 29;
her letter to Metternich on his resignation, 44;
her concern in securing the throne for her son on his uncle’s abdication, 22, 47, 48;
the names of murdered Hungarians shouted at her in the streets, 59;
her strange declaration during her confinement with Francis Joseph, 64;
arranges for her son’s marriage, 71-73;
her disappointment, 76;
her jealousy of the Empress, 86;
she is charged with throwing a mistress at the head of her son, and a lover to the Empress, 89;
had the care of Archduchess Gisela when a child, 101;
objects to the Empress’s training of the Crown Prince, 116;
sides with Maximilian over the pacte de famile, 168, 169;
her warning to Maximilian, 177
Starnberg, Lake of, 162, 190
Starztay, Countess, 261, 269
Steed, H. W., The Habsburg Monarchy, v.
Stéphanie, Princess of Belgium, wife of the Crown Prince Rudolf, 196-200, 203, 208-210;
her marriage to Count Lonyay, 293-297
Stockau, Count George, 201, 214, 215
Stübel, Fräulein Milly, 107, 240-243, 247, 253
Taaffe, Count von, 43
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, The Lord of Burleigh, 88
Thurn and Taxis, Prince of, 75
Princess of, see Helen, Princess of Bavaria
Tichborne, Sir Roger, 257
Times, The, confirms the reports of Austrian cruelty in Hungary, 55;
prints Rothschild’s letter on the Haynau affair at Barclay’s, 61;
and rebukes the draymen, 62
Tisza, M., 230
Toselli, Signor, 27, 232, 239, 241, 315, 331, 336-340
Trani, Ludwig Count de, 162, 192
Trani, Matilda, Countess de, 108, 162
Trentino, The, 150, 151, 344
Trieste, 101, 116, 180, 236, 255
Triple Alliance, The, 149-151, 155, 156
Turkey, Sultan of, 57
Turr, General, 150
Tyrol, 51
United States, President of, see Johnson, Andrew
Valérie, Archduchess, daughter of Francis Joseph, 101, 102, 107
Valois, Charles de, 20
Valparaiso, 253, 255
Vaughan, Baroness, 196
Venetia, 125, 130, 133, 134, 151, 165
Venice, 127, 146, 165
Ventnor, 119
Vetsera, Baroness, 201-203, 211, 229
Vetsera, Ferenz, 220
Vetsera, Laszlo, 220
Vetsera, Louis, 220
Vetsera, Mary, did not meet the Crown Prince in London as the author of The Martyrdom of an Empress, says, 102, 103;
died with him at Meyerling, 200;
belonged to a family well known in Vienna, 201;
her character, had started her acquaintance with Rudolf by writing asking him to see her, insulted the Crown Princess, 203;
Rudolf asked the Countess Marie Larisch to bring her to him at the Hofburg, 205;
which she did, 206;
she was taken by Rudolf to Meyerling, 207;
a former occasion on which the Prince had visited her, 209;
her belief that Rudolf would become King of Hungary and marry her, her parents seeking for her, 211;
her death with Rudolf, 213;
theories about the tragedy, 213-215;
her last letters, 216;
her reputed part in the tragedy, 222-227
Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 51, 122, 123, 128, 131, 149-152
Vienna, 41, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 108, 136, 169, 183, 184, 192, 198, 208, 212, 219, 229, 234, 251, 253, 254, 266, 274, 276, 288
Vienna, Congress of (1814-15), 1, 4
Visconti-Venosta, Marquis, 152
Waldeck, Countess of, 238
Walburg, Baron Ernest, 287
Waterloo, Battle of, 1
Weindel, H. de, François Joseph Intime, v, 117
Wellington, Duke of, 63
Wiederhofer, Dr., 214, 223
Wiener Zeitung on General Benedek, 138;
on the degradation of Princess Louisa of Tuscany, 323, 324
William I., King of Prussia, 133, 152, 194
William, Archduke, 279
William Francis Charles, Archduke, 161
Windischgraetz, Alfred von, 46-48, 52, 53, 88, 298
Windischgraetz, Prince Ernest von, 299
Windischgraetz, Prince Otto von, 293, 297-299
Wittelsbach, House of, family to which the Archduchess Sophia and the Empress Elizabeth belonged, insanity in both branches of it, 72;
which are madder, they or the Habsburgs? 187;
the difference in description, 188;
Ludwig II., 188-191;
Duchesse d’Alençon, 191;
Comte de Trani, Archduke Ladislas, Archduchess Elizabeth, 192
Wörth, 152
Wulfling, Herr, see Leopold Ferdinand Archduke
Zurich, 162

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