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- Frontmatter
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- XXII (1857-58.) THE FRENCH DETECTIVE AND HIS SMART SUBORDINATE—AT THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE—SOME POPULAR PENNY PUBLICATIONS—THE YATES AND THACKERAY SQUABBLE—A TALK WITH CHARLES READE—THE CHERBOURG FETES
- XXIII (1858.) AN EXPEDITION TO HOMBURG—EARLY SUCCESSES AND SUBSEQUENT DEFEAT—PHILOSOPHIC INDIFFERENCE—GARCIA THE GAMBLER—BOHEMIAN BILLETS-DOUX—A HYPOCHONDRIACAL HUMOURIST
- XXIV (1858-59.) THE PAPER DUTY AGITATION, AND THE REPEAL OF THE IMPOST—A CONVIVIAL CLUB AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS—THE BOOZING CARPENTER AND POPULAR EDUCATOR—IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND ON THE STUMP—A SALE AND WHAT SPRUNG FROM IT
- XXV (1859-63.) ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN DURING THE EXPLOSION—THE DROWNING OF INGRAM IN LAKE MICHIGAN—A BIRD OF ILL-OMEN ON BOSTON STUMP—“WELCOME ALEXANDRA!”—THE PRINCE OF WALES'S WEDDING AT WINDSOR
- XXVI (1863.) A SUSPICIOUS FIRE AT CAMPDEN HOUSE AND AN ACTION AGAINST THE “SUN” OFFICE—MY BROTHER FRANK'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS WAR CORRESPONDENT—HIS PRESUMED DEATH IN THE SOUDAN
- XXVII (1863-65.) THE SHAKSPEARE TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE AND MR. THACKERAY—REMINISCENCES OF SOME GUILDFORD-STREET GATHERINGS—THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS AND CHARLES READE—A CHANGE IN MY POSITION—T. W. ROBERTSON, NEEDY AND AFFLUENT
- XXVIII (1865.) FRENCH APARTMENTS—AT AUTEUIL—FANTASTIC FASHIONS—FÉTES IN THE ENVIRONS—JOURNALISTIC DUELS—A GARDEN PARTY
- XXIX (1865.) ODD WAYS OF GETTING A LIVING IN PARIS A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
- XXX (1866.) NEW YEAR'S DAY IN PARIS—THE CLOSING AND OPENING OF TWO RHINE KURSAALE—A FASHIONABLE NORMANDY WATERING PLACE
- XXXI (1867-68.) EUROPEAN POTENTATES IN PARIS—ABSURD CONCESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION COMMISSIONERS—OPENING CEREMONY—THE CZAR UNDER FIRE—PRIZE DAY AT THE PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE—SEIZED FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
- XXXII (1868.) AT THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE—A NIGHT AMONG THE PARIS CHIFFONNIERS—TWO BARRIÈRE BALLS
- XXXIII (1868.) WITH THE COURT AT COMPIÉGNE—ARTIFICIAL EYES
- XXXIV (1868-69.) ON AND ABOUT THE BOULEVARDS—THE HOUR OF ABSINTHE—THE ECCENTRIC DUKE OF BRUNSWICK—A FINANCIAL AND A GASTRONOMIC BARON—HYMEN'S AMBASSADOR—THE MAUBREUIL SCANDAL
- XXXV (1868-69). IN BRITTANY—AT A BRETON PARDON—THE TRADE IN LOCKS—HORSE À LA MODE
- XXXVI (1868.) THE ITALIAN COLONY—ITINERANT MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS' MODELS—THE BAL DU VIEUX CHÊNE—GANGS OF PARIS THIEVES—HÔTELS GARNIS—THE CARRIÈRES D'AMÉRIQUE
- XXXVII (1869.) BOULEVARDIAN JOURNALISTS AND BOULEVARD REMINISCENCES—SOME PARIS ARTISTS
- XXXVIII (1869.) IN THE VINEYARDS OF THE MÉDOC—A BORDEAUX SPADASSIN
- XXXIX (1869.) A CONFLAGRATION AMONG THE BORDEAUX SHIPPING—LIGHTED PETROLEUM AFLOAT—THE WHITE WINES OF THE GIRONDE—ANOTHER BORDEAUX SPADASSIN—ST. ÉMILION, PÉRIGUEUX, AND LIMOGES—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARDS—A STATE BALL
- XL (1869-70.) THE PANTIN TRAGEDY—THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF TROPPMANN
- XLI (1870.) AT TROPPMANN's EXECUTION—ROCHEFORT AND “LA LANTERNE”
- XLII (1870 et seq.)
XXII - (1857-58.) THE FRENCH DETECTIVE AND HIS SMART SUBORDINATE—AT THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE—SOME POPULAR PENNY PUBLICATIONS—THE YATES AND THACKERAY SQUABBLE—A TALK WITH CHARLES READE—THE CHERBOURG FETES
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 November 2010
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- XXII (1857-58.) THE FRENCH DETECTIVE AND HIS SMART SUBORDINATE—AT THE PRINCESS ROYAL'S MARRIAGE—SOME POPULAR PENNY PUBLICATIONS—THE YATES AND THACKERAY SQUABBLE—A TALK WITH CHARLES READE—THE CHERBOURG FETES
- XXIII (1858.) AN EXPEDITION TO HOMBURG—EARLY SUCCESSES AND SUBSEQUENT DEFEAT—PHILOSOPHIC INDIFFERENCE—GARCIA THE GAMBLER—BOHEMIAN BILLETS-DOUX—A HYPOCHONDRIACAL HUMOURIST
- XXIV (1858-59.) THE PAPER DUTY AGITATION, AND THE REPEAL OF THE IMPOST—A CONVIVIAL CLUB AND SOME OF ITS MEMBERS—THE BOOZING CARPENTER AND POPULAR EDUCATOR—IN IRELAND AND SCOTLAND ON THE STUMP—A SALE AND WHAT SPRUNG FROM IT
- XXV (1859-63.) ON BOARD THE GREAT EASTERN DURING THE EXPLOSION—THE DROWNING OF INGRAM IN LAKE MICHIGAN—A BIRD OF ILL-OMEN ON BOSTON STUMP—“WELCOME ALEXANDRA!”—THE PRINCE OF WALES'S WEDDING AT WINDSOR
- XXVI (1863.) A SUSPICIOUS FIRE AT CAMPDEN HOUSE AND AN ACTION AGAINST THE “SUN” OFFICE—MY BROTHER FRANK'S EVENTFUL CAREER AS WAR CORRESPONDENT—HIS PRESUMED DEATH IN THE SOUDAN
- XXVII (1863-65.) THE SHAKSPEARE TERCENTENARY COMMITTEE AND MR. THACKERAY—REMINISCENCES OF SOME GUILDFORD-STREET GATHERINGS—THE DAVENPORT BROTHERS AND CHARLES READE—A CHANGE IN MY POSITION—T. W. ROBERTSON, NEEDY AND AFFLUENT
- XXVIII (1865.) FRENCH APARTMENTS—AT AUTEUIL—FANTASTIC FASHIONS—FÉTES IN THE ENVIRONS—JOURNALISTIC DUELS—A GARDEN PARTY
- XXIX (1865.) ODD WAYS OF GETTING A LIVING IN PARIS A QUARTER OF A CENTURY AGO
- XXX (1866.) NEW YEAR'S DAY IN PARIS—THE CLOSING AND OPENING OF TWO RHINE KURSAALE—A FASHIONABLE NORMANDY WATERING PLACE
- XXXI (1867-68.) EUROPEAN POTENTATES IN PARIS—ABSURD CONCESSIONS OF THE EXHIBITION COMMISSIONERS—OPENING CEREMONY—THE CZAR UNDER FIRE—PRIZE DAY AT THE PALAIS DE L'INDUSTRIE—SEIZED FOREIGN NEWSPAPERS
- XXXII (1868.) AT THE PREFECTURE OF POLICE—A NIGHT AMONG THE PARIS CHIFFONNIERS—TWO BARRIÈRE BALLS
- XXXIII (1868.) WITH THE COURT AT COMPIÉGNE—ARTIFICIAL EYES
- XXXIV (1868-69.) ON AND ABOUT THE BOULEVARDS—THE HOUR OF ABSINTHE—THE ECCENTRIC DUKE OF BRUNSWICK—A FINANCIAL AND A GASTRONOMIC BARON—HYMEN'S AMBASSADOR—THE MAUBREUIL SCANDAL
- XXXV (1868-69). IN BRITTANY—AT A BRETON PARDON—THE TRADE IN LOCKS—HORSE À LA MODE
- XXXVI (1868.) THE ITALIAN COLONY—ITINERANT MUSICIANS AND ARTISTS' MODELS—THE BAL DU VIEUX CHÊNE—GANGS OF PARIS THIEVES—HÔTELS GARNIS—THE CARRIÈRES D'AMÉRIQUE
- XXXVII (1869.) BOULEVARDIAN JOURNALISTS AND BOULEVARD REMINISCENCES—SOME PARIS ARTISTS
- XXXVIII (1869.) IN THE VINEYARDS OF THE MÉDOC—A BORDEAUX SPADASSIN
- XXXIX (1869.) A CONFLAGRATION AMONG THE BORDEAUX SHIPPING—LIGHTED PETROLEUM AFLOAT—THE WHITE WINES OF THE GIRONDE—ANOTHER BORDEAUX SPADASSIN—ST. ÉMILION, PÉRIGUEUX, AND LIMOGES—THE BURGUNDY VINEYARDS—A STATE BALL
- XL (1869-70.) THE PANTIN TRAGEDY—THE TRIAL AND CONVICTION OF TROPPMANN
- XLI (1870.) AT TROPPMANN's EXECUTION—ROCHEFORT AND “LA LANTERNE”
- XLII (1870 et seq.)
Summary
I was in Paris at the end of 1857 and the beginning of the year following, and had scarcely returned to London before news arrived of the attempted assassination of the emperor by flinging some hand grenades at his carriage as it drew up at the opera-house in the Rue Lepelletier. The attempt, as we all know, failed, though a dozen unfortunate people were killed, and twice as many wounded by the exploded bombs. Singularly enough while I was in Paris I had been introduced by a friend to M. Claude, the police-agent who arrested the three principal conspirators, Pieri, Eudio, and Orsini, and who had moreover forewarned the prefect of police of the existence of the plot, though his warning was made light of at the time.
A friend who was present in the opera-house that evening informed me that when the emperor entered the imperial box, and showed himself to the audience, his countenance wore just the same calm, impassable look as on the day after the coup d'état, when he rode along the boulevards thirty feet or more in advance of his staff, while blood was still running in the gutters, and the road and footway were encumbered with unburied corpses. At the opera he glanced from side to side, surveying the audience with his habitual fathoming gaze, and bowed his acknowledgment of their plaudits in the calmest fashion, without a muscle of his face seeming to quiver, or the slightest sparkle lighting up his lack-lustre eyes.
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- Glances Back Through Seventy YearsAutobiographical and Other Reminiscences, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1893