A
Abdul-Aziz, 387
Aguado, Mme., 63, 153
Albany, Duchess of, 83
Albe, Duc d’, 4, 47
Duchesse d’, 57, 62, 107, 153
Mlles. d’, 293
Albuféra, Maréchale d’, 47
Duchesse d’, 353
Alcanises, Marquis d’, 60
Aldama, Mme. de, 153
Alexander II., Emperor, 297
Alexandra, Queen, 388, 389
Allsop, Mr. (Orsini), 83
Alten, Count von, 206
Alvensleben, General von, 208
Ambès, Baron d’, 24, 270
André, M., 269, 270
Angely, Marshal Regnault de Saint-Jean d’, 78
Aoste, Dowager Duchesse d’, 349, 351, 354, 358
(late), Duc d’, 380
Duc d’, 382
Duchesse d’, 382
Arcos, Mme. de, 73, 153, 386, 389
Argyll, Duchess of, 388
Arnaud, Mme. St., 37
Auber, M., 79
Augusta, Queen of Prussia, 291
Aumale, Duc d’, 201
Austin, Alfred (Poet-Laureate), 400
Austria, Empress of, 148
Emperor of, 168, 356, 371
Autemarre, General d’, 192, 193
Auvergne, Prince de La Tour d’, 194
Azeglio, Marquis d’, 230

B
Bacciochi, Comte, 100, 269
Baden, Grand Duchess of, 31
Bapst, M. Germain, 168, 184, 186, 190
Baroche, M., 271
Barron, Mrs., 155
Barrot, M., 271
Bartholini, Mme., 133, 134
Bassano, Duc de, 300
Mlle. de, 352
Bassano, Duchesse de, 40
Battenberg, Princess Henry of, 377, 388, 392
Prince Henry of, 377
Bazaine, Marshal, 181, 183, 192, 193, 196, 199, 201, 202, 203, 210, 294, 304, 305
Beaumont, Comtesse de, 149
Beckwith, Miss, 155
Bedmar, Marquis de, 45
Belgiojoso, Princesse, 154
Marquise de, 60
Benedetti, Comte, 282, 291
Beneyton, Monsieur H., 352
Bernhardt, Mme. Sarah, 385
Berryer, M., 26
Bertrand, M., 306
Beust, Count, 166, 298
M. and Mme. Maurice, 385
Bigelow, Mr. John, 108
Billault, M., 271
Bischoffsheim, Mme. Ferdinand, 155
Bismarck, Count von, 69, 75, 125, 208, 218, 220, 221, 275, 278, 291, 292, 332, 333
Blanchet, M., 379
Blessington, Lady, 19, 22, 28
Bojano, Duchesse de, 154
Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland, 8, 9, 28, 29
Prince Pierre, 21, 336
Prince Roland, 385
Princesse Jeanne, 385
Princesse Marie (Princess George of Greece), 385
Princesse Lætitia, 385
Prince Lucien, 385
Princess Lucien, 385
Boulanger, General, 370
Bourbaki, General, 291
Bourgoing, Baron de, 75, 133
Brown, Mr. John, 392
Bruat, Admiral, 328
Mlles., 328
Brunswick, Duke of, 80
Buguet, M., 393
Burdett-Coutts, Miss, 31
Burgoyne, Lieut.-Colonel Sir John, 231, 233, 234, 235
Lady, 231, 233

C
Cabanel, M., 135
Cabrol, Dom, Lord Abbot of St. Michael’s, Farnborough, 377
Calderon, M., 153
Calmette, M. Gaston, 278
Canisy, Mme. de, 149, 155
Canrobert, Marshal, 74, 78, 182, 192, 193, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200
Mme., 169
Carette, Mme., 57
Carey, Lieutenant, 306
Carrère, M. Jean, 357
Carroll, Mrs., 155
Cassagnac, MM. de, 345
Paul de, 217, 303
Castelbajac, Comte de, 153
Castellane, Marquis de, 274
Castelnau, General, 213
Castiglione, Comtesse de, 137, 141, 154
Cavour, Count, 229, 230
Chaband-Latour, General, 178
Chambord, Comte de, 370
Chambrier, M. James de, 88
Changarnier, General, 271
Chapelle, Comte de La, 301, 320
Vicomte de La, 301, 308
Chaplin, Mr., 72
Charette, General Baron de, 155
Chasseloup-Laubat, Marquise de, 155, 328
Chazal, General, 190, 222
Chigi, Mgr., 143
Chimay, Prince de, 363
Christian, Princess, 392
Circourt, Comtesse de, 229
Clarendon, Lord, 97, 111
Claretie, M. Jules, 393
Clary, Comte, 316, 317
Conegliano, Duc de, 236
Conneau, Dr., 23, 24, 103, 105, 228, 301
Mme., 72
M., jun., 133
Constantine, Grand Duke, 120
Contades, Marquise de, 42
Conti, M., 276
Cornu, Mme., 27, 275
Corvisart, Baron, 211
Courson, General de, 213
Courtval, Mme. de, 163, 164
Coventry, Lord, 72
Cowley, Lord, 100
Lady, 101

D
Daru, Comte, 284
David, M. Jérôme, 184, 185, 190, 286
Davilliers, Comte, 211
Delafosse, M. Jules, 343, 344
Delessert, Mme., 2
M. Edouard, 100
Demidoff, Prince Anatole, 32, 41, 384
Denmark, King of, 386
Diego, M., 153
Dino, Duchesse de, 45, 47
Dion, Marquis de, 356
Dosse, M., 390, 391
Douay, General, 169
Ducrot, General, 211
Dumas, Alexandre, 163
Dumont, General, 192
Dumoulin, M. Maurice, 227
Duperré, Charles, 180, 185, 192, 193, 194, 195
Durangel, M., 185
Duruy, M., 383
Duvernois, M. Clément, 286

E
Edinburgh, Duke of, 387
Edward VII., King, 387, 388, 389
Edwards, H. Sutherland, 206
Ellrichshausen, Colonel von, 220
Espinasse, M., 271
Eugénie, the Empress:
sees her future Consort for the first time, 1;
her Paris education, her friends, departure from Paris for Spain, 2;
the school at Clifton, in her teens, at the bull-fights, the “élégants,” 3;
“Ugenia” and the Spanish Dukes, the Comtesse de Montijo’s salon and her “pollos,” 4;
a variegated life, travels, Eugénie at Buckingham Palace, 5;
at the Palmerstons (London), in the Pyrenees, 6;
Eugénie at Compiègne, the courting, the Fortoul incident, 33;
the Emperor’s offer of marriage, 34;
the Court divided on the question, 35;
the gipsy fortune-teller, 36;
the lovelorn Dukes, snubbing the fiancée, the hasty Empress, 37;
“a delicate question,” 38;
the Emperor’s real opinion of Eugénie, “only my husband shall kiss me,” 39;
discomfited Ministers, 40;
M. Thiers’ sarcasm, Princesse Mathilde’s appeal to the Emperor, 41;
Eugénie at Princesse Mathilde’s ball, she is “the actual rising sun,” at the Opera, 42;
she makes splendid “copy” for the papers, some unflattering people, 43;
the Comtesse de Montijo’s parsimony, enthusiasm of the Madrid Press, 44;
the Duchesse de Dino’s amusing letters, jokes made about the Empress, 45, 46, 47;
the Heralds’ College, Paris, explains the genealogy of the Montijo-Guzmans, 48;
portrait-in-words of the Empress, 49-69;
at Biarritz, 70, 71;
the Empress and the Grand Prix, 72;
quality of the Tuileries’ wine criticized, “not so good as Pinard’s,” a military review, 73;
Eugénie “in all the radiance of her beauty,” 74;
the “Bal des Souverains,” 75;
other fêtes to the Foreign Sovereigns and Princes, the Empress’s success as hostess, 76;
the Empress and Isabelle, the flower-girl, 79;
some distinguished people, 80;
the Orsini “attempt,” the Empress’s courage, 83-87;
as the result of “scenes,” the Empress goes to Scotland, 89;
the Empress Eugénie and the Empress of Mexico, a scene at St. Cloud, the weeping Eugénie, 93;
the Empress at Windsor Castle, the “Garter” conferred upon the Emperor in the Empress’s presence, 94, 95;
the Empress with Queen Victoria at Osborne, 97;
her happy days in the Isle of Wight, 98;
the Empress’s “great” and “little” balls, 99;
the Empress seldom dances, 100;
she tells a story at one of the “Mondays,” 101, 102;
the Duchess of Sutherland and the Empress, 105, 106;
Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower describes the Empress at the Tuileries and at Windsor, 106, 107;
visit of the Empress to Stafford House, 107;
an American diplomatist describes the Empress “without a country,” 108;
the Empress’s letter on cricket, 111, 112;
the Empress at Fontainebleau, the Imperial Hunt, 115;
Eugénie’s apartments at Fontainebleau formerly occupied by Marie Antoinette, the boudoir, “she would have liked to milk a cow and to make butter,” the procession to the imperial bedrooms, 117;
the Empress improvises open-air dinners, her “turlututus,” she is a “romantic,” 119;
Pierrefonds, the château which gave the Empress a travelling-name, she admires the eighteenth century, at Fontainebleau she is happiest, 120;
the splendours of Fontainebleau, the ladies’ stories, 121;
“talk to the Empress about her crinolines” (De Morny), 122;
the Empress speaks loudly, her drives, luncheons, and excursions, 123;
she enjoys herself when wet through, and pays a fine for being late at dinner, 124;
a dramatic incident at Fontainebleau, the Empress in tears at a Ministerial Council, 126;
the first of “the Compiègnes,” attended by Eugénie and her mother, both ardent sportswomen, 129;
family gathering on the Empress’s fête-day, life at Compiègne, the Empress acts in a piece by Feuillet, 132;
Her Majesty in high spirits, rejoicing at the coming struggle in Mexico, 135, 136;
the Empress blamed for countenancing the “Exotics,” 137;
she is thrown among cosmopolitan society, 138;
the Empress, Princesse de Metternich, and the Comtesse de Castiglione, enthusiasm of the Austrian Ambassador for the Empress, 141;
influence of the Princesse over Eugénie, 143;
what she said about Her Majesty, 148;
the beautiful Duchesse d’Albe, the Empress’s sister, 153;
the Empress welcomes the Spanish ladies, 154;
a great favourite of the Empress, 160;
the Comtesse E. de Pourtalès and the Empress, 161;
the Empress’s war telegrams to the Emperor, her courage and hopefulness, indefatigable exertions, and ability as Regent, 165-201;
new versions of the Empress’s flight from the Tuileries and escape from Paris, 223-228;
story of Chevalier Nigra and the Empress, 230-231;
Sir John Burgoyne’s narrative of the Empress and the voyage from Deauville to Ryde, 231-234;
what the Empress told Lord Ronald Sutherland-Gower at Chislehurst, the bust of Marie Antoinette swept off the table, 235, 236;
the exact hour of the Empress’s departure from the Tuileries, September 4, 1870, 237;
“the Empress’s crown of thorns,” her heroic conduct after Sedan, 237, 238;
plot to defraud the Empress described by M. Pietri, 238, 239;
list of objects left at the Tuileries in 1870 by the Empress, the Emperor, and the Prince Imperial, 240-244;
the Empress’s complaints to Queen Victoria of English newspaper attacks upon the Emperor, Bismarck a favourite of the Empress, 275;
M. Émile Ollivier and the Empress, 277;
the “Case” for the Empress, published in the volume, “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,” her own statement, 278;
what the Empress said upon reading that the Hohenzollern candidature was withdrawn, 291;
“Do your duty, Louis!” 293;
M. Émile Ollivier’s courageous defence of the Empress, and confirmation of her statements in the “Case,” 295;
the Author’s remarks on the “Case,” 296;
the critics, Comte de La Chapelle, and the Empress, 301;
Marshal Bazaine and the Empress, 304;
the Vicomte de La Chapelle confirms statements published in “The Empress Eugénie: 1870-1910,” 305;
the Empress and the Comte de La Chapelle, 316, 317;
the Empress and Colonel Stoffel, 323;
the Empress’s presents to Prince and Princess Napoleon on their marriage, 353, 354;
a portrait of the Empress chez Prince Napoleon, 365;
Prince Napoleon and Princesse Clémentine visit the Empress at Farnborough Hill, 373;
King Leopold, Princesse Clémentine, and Princesse Stéphanie visit the Empress at Cap Martin, ibid.;
the Empress at her Hampshire home, 374, 375;
the Empress at eighty-five, her letters of condolence to Queen Alexandra, Princess Henry of Battenberg, and Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, on the death of King Edward, and her Imperial Majesty’s beautiful souvenir of the King, 388, 389;
the Empress’s last visit to King Edward and Queen Alexandra at Buckingham Palace, her long cruise in 1910, her visit to the Sultan, she witnesses the launch of the Orion and lunches with King George and Queen Mary at Marlborough House, a cruise in the Erin as the guest of Sir Thomas Lipton, she is present at the King’s Coronation Review of the Fleet, 389;
M. Paoli narrates an adventure at Nice concerning the Empress, 390, 391;
the Empress hears Mass at the Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury, Cowes, 391;
she visits and is visited by English Princesses, and walks on the Parade at Cowes, 392;
death of one of her pensioners, ibid.;
a new French play, “Napoleon III.,” with the Empress and the Emperor as characters, other Napoleonic plays, 392-394;
a garden festival in the park and grounds of the imperial residence, Farnborough Hill, 395;
the Empress’s tomb at St. Michael’s Abbey Church, 396;
Cardinal Manning’s eulogy of the Empress and the Prince Imperial, 398, 399;
the words of the Empress, 399
Evans, Mr. T. W., 223, 226, 227, 231, 232

F
Falize, MM., 353
Farnborough Hill, idyll of, 373
Farquhar, Mr., 25
Fave, General, 75
Favre, Jules, 26, 288
Flandre, Comtesse de, 351, 352, 354, 371
Comte de, 387
Fleury, Comte, 21, 60, 68, 78, 271, 276
Comtesse, 78
Flowers, Miss, 3
Forest, Baron de, 158
Fortoul, M. and Mme., 33, 37, 128
M., 271
Fould, M. Achille, 35, 47, 48, 61, 149, 271
Frederick Charles, Prince, 219
Frias, Duchesse de, 153
Frossard, General, 171, 172, 173, 180, 181, 182, 293, 334

G
Galliera, Duchesse de, 142
Galliffet, Marquise de, 73, 106, 133, 155, 159, 160, 161
Marquis de, 79, 160, 161
Mlle. Diane de, 159
Gamble, Mr., 217
Gautier, Théophile, 79, 363
Geneva, Bishop of, 360
Gerlach, General von, 273
German Emperor and Empress, 372, 373
Glenesk, Lord (Mr. A. Borthwick), 110, 300
Goddard, Monsignor, 393
Goltz, Baron, 71
Major-General Count von, 75
Gordon, Mrs. (née Bruault), 20
Gounod, M., 135
Goze, General, 212
Grammont-Caderousse, Duc de, 79, 151, 152, 160
Gramont, Duc de, 282, 291, 292, 293, 295, 296, 297, 298
Greece, King of, 386
H.R.H. Prince George of, 385
Gricourt, Marquis de, 21, 281, 282
Guadalcazar, Marquis de, 153
Guadalmina, Marquise de, 153
“Gyp,”