France from Behind the Veil: Fifty Years of Social and Political Life
by Princess Catherine Radziwill
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- France from Behind the Veil: Fifty Years of Social and Political Life
- PUBLISHERS’ NOTE
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- France from Behind the Veil
- CHAPTER I Last Days of the Empire: Napoleon and Eugénie
- CHAPTER II The Surroundings and Friends of the Sovereigns
- CHAPTER III Fontainebleau and Compiègne
- CHAPTER IV Political Men of the Time
- CHAPTER V Before the Storm
- CHAPTER VI The Disaster
- CHAPTER VII Letters from Paris during the Siege
- CHAPTER VIII The Commune
- CHAPTER IX M. Thiers
- CHAPTER X The Comte de Chambord and His Party
- CHAPTER XI The Orleans Princes
- CHAPTER XII The Duc d’Aumale and Chantilly
- CHAPTER XIII The Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
- CHAPTER XIV Two Great Ministers
- CHAPTER XV Paris Society under the Presidency of Marshal MacMahon
- CHAPTER XVI A Few Prominent Parisian Hostesses
- CHAPTER XVII Madame Juliette Adam
- CHAPTER XVIII A Few Literary Men
- CHAPTER XIX The 16th of May and the Fall of Marshal MacMahon
- CHAPTER XX Leon Gambetta
- CHAPTER XXI The Adventure of General Boulanger
- CHAPTER XXII The Panama Scandal
- CHAPTER XXIII Two Presidents
- CHAPTER XXIV Imperial and Presidential Visits
- CHAPTER XXV The French Press
- CHAPTER XXVI The Presidency of M. Loubet
- CHAPTER XXVII The Dreyfus Affair
- CHAPTER XXVIII Parisian Salons under the Third Republic
- CHAPTER XXIX The Present Tone of Paris Society
- CHAPTER XXX M. Fallières as President
- CHAPTER XXXI M. Briand and the Socialists
- CHAPTER XXXII A Few Literary Men of the Present Day
- CHAPTER XXXIII A Few Foreign Diplomats
- L’ENVOI
- INDEX
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