Before and after Waterloo: Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)Stanley, Edward
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Before and after Waterloo: Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816)
Stanley, Edward
Europe -- Description and travel; France -- History -- Consulate and First Empire, 1799-1815
compartment in which the Imperial Eagles had been changed into Angels).
"Je l'ai donné aux Français, et lui--il n'était pas Français."
[Illustration: The Great Green Coach.
_To face p. 306._]
In all the royal house the servants are equally impenetrable on the
subject of Buonaparte. But sometimes it seems put on, sometimes they
really do not know from having been only lately put there, but this man
was a genuine Bourbonist and a genuine Frenchman.
We just got to St. Germain in time to walk on the Terrace before evening
closed in over the beautiful view. The Palace and the Town put me quite
in mind of the deserted court in the "Arabian Nights." ...
_Edward Stanley to his Nieces. Tuesday morning._
I could fill another letter with the interesting things we saw yesterday
at St. Denis and Malmaison, but we are off in an hour, and it is
possible you may hear no more from these
HAPPY TRAVELLERS.
[Illustration: ALDERLEY RECTORY.]
Index
Abbeville, Louis XVIII. at, 244
Abercromby, Colonel, 280
Aisne, river, 145-161
Aix la Chapelle, 146, 183, 191, 194, 205
_Albania_, ship at Antwerp, 203
Albinus, German anatomist, 232
Alderley, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17-21, 24, 68, 74, 75, 96, 120, 236, 249, 283,
296
Alderley Church, 102
Alderley Edge, 16
Alderley Park, 14
Alderley Rectory, 15-17
Alessandria, Plain of Marengo, 49
Alexander I., Emperor of Russia, 76, 82-85, 93, 133, 177, 178, 222, 229,
237, 244, 245
Algeciras Bay, 53
Alhama, Spain, 58, 63
Alhambra, The, 59, 61, 63, 64
Alien Office, The, 82
Alkmaar, 205
"Allemagne," By Madame de Staël, 128
Allied Sovereigns, 82, 95, 152
Allies, 105, 115, 116, 126, 156, 160-162, 168, 196, 197, 236, 237, 242
Alps, 57
Ambassador, English, Sir Charles Stuart, 112
Ambassador, Swedish, M. de Staël, 132
Ambolle, Baron d', at Fontainebleau, 153
_Ambuscade_, picture of capture of the frigate, 136
Amiens, Peace of, 25, 73
Amsterdam, 211, 222-224, 226
Andernach on the Rhine, 187
Angerstein Collection, 113
Anglesey Society, 10
Anglesey, Lord, his leg buried at Waterloo, 261
Angoulême, Duchesse d', 289
Antiquiera, Spain, 60, 64
Antwerp, 199, 204, 206, 208, 209, 210, 233, 253
Antwerp Gate, Bergen op Zoom, 214, 217
Apreece, Mrs., afterwards Lady Davey, 81
_Argonauta_, Spanish vessel, 51, 53, 56
Ashbourne, 248
Augereau, General, 238
Austerlitz, 138, 269, 287
Austria, 179, 181
Austria, Emperor of, 135, 237
Bacharach on the Rhine, 172, 184, 185
Banks, Sir Joseph, 93
Barcelona, 50, 52, 54, 55, 60, 69, 70
Barclay de Tolly, 116
Baring, Major, 268
Barthélemy, 237
Bastille, 295
Batavia, 193
Beauharnais, Eugène, Viceroy of Italy, 132, 134
Bees, Napoleon's, 150
Beeston Castle, 301
Belleville, 115, 116, 117
Belluno, Duc du, _see_ Victor
Benedictines, head cook to convent of, 41
Beresford, Viscount, Marshal, 74
Bergen op Zoom, 199, 208-212
Berghem, Dutch painter (1624-1683), 201
Berri, Duc de, 139, 140, 152, 282, 289
Berri, Duchesse de, 289, 305
Berry au Bac, 145, 163, 164
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