CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | |
| THE LAST DAYS OF THE EMPIRE. | |
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| Beginning of the Term of Service in France—Arrival in Paris—Paris in 1869—Presentation to the Emperor and Empress—General Dix—An Election for the Corps Législatif—Discontent in Paris—M. Rouher— “Transcontinental, Memphis, El Paso and Pacific Railway“—Prince de La Tour d’Auvergne—Postal Treaty—Visit to the Imperial Palace at Compiégne—Opening of the Corps Législatif—New Year’s at the Tuileries—Change of Ministry—M. Ollivier | 1 |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| THE DECLARATION OF WAR. | |
| Significance of the Hohenzollern Incident—King William’s Rumored Insult to the French Ambassador—Some Traits of the Emperor and Empress of France—Americans at Court—The Last Grand Dinner at the Tuileries—War Declared—German Subjects Placed under the Protection of the United States Minister—An Important Question in International Law | 29 |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| THE FIRST FRENCH DEFEATS. | |
| Suppression of the News in Paris—Crowds Exasperated by a False Report of Victory—Paris Declared in a State of Siege—An Interview with the Empress—Expulsion of the Germans—An Extraordinary Session of the Corps Législatif—The Fall of a Ministry—A Panic among German Residents | 55 |
