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Memoirs of the Prince Imperial (1856-1879) THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 1856-1879 ^^M^ AUGUSTIN FILON MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL MEMOIRS OF THE COMTESSE DE BOIGNE. Edited from the original MS. by Charles NicouLLAtiD. Vol. I (1781-1814); Vol. II (1815-1819); Vol. Ill (1820-1830). Three vols. Demy 8vo. lOs. net each. RECOLLECTIONS OF A GREAT LADY. Being more memoirs of the Comtesse de Boigne (1832-1848). Demy Svo. 10s.net. MEMOIRS OF THE DUCHESSE DE DINO (afterwards Duchesse de Talleyrand et de Sagan). Edited by the Princess Radziwill {nde Castellane). Vol. I (1831-1835) ; Vol. Vol. Ill II (1836-1840) ; (1841-1850). Three vols. Demy 8vo. 10s. net each. RECOLLECTIONS OF BARON DE FRENILLY (1768-1828). Edited by Arthur Chuquet. From the French by Frederic Lees. Demy 8vo. 10s. net. THE RETURN OF LOUIS XVIII. By Gilbert Stenger. From the French by Mrs. RoDOLPH Stawell. Demy Svo. 10s. net. LONDON: WILLIAM HEINEMANN MEMOIRS OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL (1856—1879). FROM THE FRENCH OF AUGUSTIN FILON ILLUSTRATED WILLIAM HEINEMANN LONDON MCMXIII .^^ Copyright, 19 13. PREFACE Before old age should make my hand falter and the scenes and the faces of the past become indistinct in my memory, I desired to fix ^n image that is always with me and in which I am told people of to-day take an eager interest. It was my intention to confine myself to my own memories, to what I saw and heard during the seven and a half years I spent with the Prince Imperial. But no sooner was my project known than help came to me on every hand, and I should need many pages if I were to record all the invaluable assistance given me, spon- taneously, by friends old and new. I cannot, however, refrain from mentioning two devoted collaborators, M. Franceschini Pietri and the Abbe Misset, vdthout whom I could not have brought my task to a satisfactory con- clusion. M. Pietri, whose unparalleled fidelity made him for more than half a century the witness of the private life and the confidant of the thoughts of the Imperial family, has been my guide for the last years of the Prince's life. As for the Abbe Misset, he has chosen for me, out of his admirable collection, illustrations that have helped me to show to the eyes of the reader what the Prince was through- out the successive phases of his life, as well as those who lived in touch with him, and the places he visited. To crown all, the Empress, meeting my dearest wishes. ^^5401 PREFACE allowed me to read her son's correspondence. As she put it " in my hands she was good enough to say to me : 1 entrust to you the most precious thing I have in the world. ... I will only offer you one piece of advice : retain to the full your freedom as a man of letters." I have done so in every sense. Perhaps there were obstacles in my path, I have ignored them. I have sought to be wholly truthful, I have written to the dictation of my memory and of my conscience. If it has no other merit, this book is independent and sincere. Croydon, 1st June, 1912. CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE LITTLE PRINCE 1 CHAPTER II THE PRINCE AT ELEVEN YEARS OLD 19 CHAPTER III THE PRINCE AT WORK. THE FIRST COMMUNION 32 CHAPTER IV FRIENDSHIPS. HIS AMUSEMENTS 51 CHAPTER V THE WAR 65 CHAPTER VI CHISLEHURST. THE EMPEROr's DEATH 84 CHAPTER VII LIFE AT WOOLWICH. THE SIXTEENTH OF MARCH 103 CHAPTER VIII LIFE AT WOOLWICH (continued) vii CONTENTS CHAPTER IX PAGE IN THE CAMP AT ALDERSHOT. ENGLISH FRIENDSHIPS. TRAVELS TO FLORENCE AND ROME 134 CHAPTER X THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND THE SIXTEENTH OF MAY 152 CHAPTER XI THE PRINCE AMONG THE ENGLISH. NORTHERN TRAVELS. POLITICS IN 1878 164 CHAPTER XII ZULULAND 184 CHAPTER XIII THE FIRST OF JUNE, 1879 207 CHAPTER XIV NOVISSIMA VERBA 222 APPENDIX 237 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND HIS DOG, NERO, BY CARPEAUX Frontispiece CRADLE PRESENTED TO THE PRINCE IMPERIAL BY THE CITY OP PARIS 4 THE EMPEROR AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, 1858 8 THE EMPRESS AND THE PRINCE IMPERIAL (1862) 12 COMMANDANT LAMEY 24 QENERAL FROSSARD, GOVERNOR 24 GENERAL MARQUIS d'kSPEUILLBS 24 LOUIS-NAPOLEON 24 ADMIRAL C, DUPERRfi 24 M. FILON, TUTOR 24 COMTE DE LIGNIVILLE 24 DUG d'albe 30 DUCHESSE DE MEDINA COELI 30 DUCHESSE DE TAMAMES 30 HER MAJESTY THE EMPRESS (1865) 32 HIS MAJESTY THE EMPEROR, 1865 36 ROUGH SKETCH OF A GRENADIER 46 BUST OF THE PRINCE, BY CARPEAUX 48 PRINCE J, MURAT 52 L. CONNEAU 52 ix LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 52 A. BIZOT 52 COMTE PRIMOLI 52 J. E8PINASSE 52 M. AND A. FLEURY 54 S. AND G. CORVISART 54 LOUIS NAPOLEON 54 P. DE BOURGOINQ 54 M. FROSSARD 54 A VIEW OF HASTINGS 84 THE EMPEROR IN 1871 88 THE EMPEROR AND THE PRINCE IN 1871 88 THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, 1872 88 THE WALL ON WHICH THE PRINCE HAD WRITTEN HIS NAME IN THE SCHOOL AT WOOLWICH 98 WOOLWICH : THE PRINCE's STUDY 98 51 WOOLWICH COMMON 104 WOOLWICH : A GENERAL VIEW OP THE ACADEMY 104 THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, JANUARY 22, 1873 108 SKETCH BY THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 110 THE PRINCE IN THE UNIFORM OF THE MILITARY SCHOOL AT WOOLWICH (1873) 120 THE PRINCE AND HIS COMRADES AT WOOLWICH 124 THE RITTERS' DEPARTURE : A DRAWING BY THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 138 A VOLTIGEUR AN ARAB } THREE DRAWINGS BY THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 142 A CANTINIKRE IN NORWAY SKETCHES BY THE PRINCE 172 THE PRINCE IMPERIAL AND THE PRINCE ROYAL OF SWEDEN 172 X LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE ATTACK ON A KRAAL 202 DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 212 THE DEAD PRINCE 212 SOUVENIR AND LATEST PORTRAIT OF THE PRINCE 218 THE prince's monument IN ZULULAND 224 THE prince's MONUMENT AT WINDSOR 224 THE TOMB OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL 226 THE ABBEY CHAPEL AT FARNBOROUGH 226 LETTER TO M. FILON WRITTEN BY THE PRINCE AT THE MOMENT OF HIS DEPARTURE FOR ZULULAND Afp. A PAGE PROM ONE OF THE PRINCe's NOTEBOOKS AT WOOLWICH Afyp. A PAGE OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL'S HANDWRITING (mARCH 14, 1865) Ajyp. CHAPTER 1 THE LITTLE PRINCE I. I WAS fourteen years old, and in the third form of the Lycee at Douai, where I was then living with my family, when on the morning of March 16, 1856—it was Palm Sunday—the cannon announced to us that the Imperial child, so anxiously expected for the past two days, had at length made his entry into the world. Immediately there was a profound silence in every house in the town to listen to the historic salvo which was echoing that of the Invalides at a few hours' interval. Everyone was counting the guns, for it was known beforehand that the old cere- monial of monarchy would be scrupulously observed on this occasion : twenty-one guns for a princess, for a prince a hundred and one ! The detonations followed one another, slow, solemn, at regular intervals; they re-echoed even in my childish heart. Eighteen .... nineteen .... twenty .... twenty-one .... I seem to live over again that second of supreme and " " final expectation, and to hear the Ah ! that broke from every breast and rose above the town in confused acclama- tion. For the immense inajority of the nation, this child who had found birth so difficult was coming to ensure the future of the dynasty and to end the era of revolutions. We were not long in learning how the rest of France, and 1 B MfeMblKS OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL especially how Paris had received the great news, with what anxiety it had been awaited, with what an outburst of joy it had been hailed. The great official bodies of the State, summoned to the Tuileries, had remained there without a break all the day and all the evening of the fifteenth, and had not withdrawn to take their rest until a very advanced hour and at the formal order of the sovereign. The crowd, massed on the Place du Carrousel, pressed against the railings with eyes fixed on the lighted windows of the palace where no one had slept the whole night through. About half-past three this crowd learned that the Empire had an heir. Paris was told as soon as it awoke. When at the morning sitting of the Corps Legislatif the Due de Morny would have told the news to his colleagues a great cry "Vive I'Empereurl" answered him before he could speak. The comment of the man in the street on the event was this, it appears: "Isn't he lucky!" Indeed, the Emperor had conquered anarchy, had conquered Russia; he had turned our ancient hereditary enemy into an ally, had invited Europe to an Exhibition in which France had demonstrated her productive energy, her genius in art and industry, and after having raised once more the military prestige of the nation, he was preparing to ensure to her the advantages of a lasting peace, founded on the concord of the Powers, in a Congress the meeting of which in Paris was a homage to French hegemony. On the eve of this Congress fortune was crowning all these successes with a " " supreme favour by giving him a son. Isn't he lucky I This phrase repeated with smiles by the whole people summed up five years of uninterrupted good fortune and expressed, in affectionately disrespectful shape, the reviving faith of the people in the star of the Bonapartes. How easy it was to reawaken this faith in generations brought up on the vivid and touching pages of Las Cases I That star then, so long obscured among clouds, shone out THE LITTLE PRINCE once more in the zenith, and now, as in 1811, it stood above a cradle.
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