Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great ChancellorBusch, Moritz
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Bismarck : $b some secret pages of his history (Vol. 2 of 3). Being a diary kept by Dr. Moritz Busch during twenty-five years' official and private intercourse with the great Chancellor
Busch, Moritz
Bismarck, Otto, Fürst von, 1815-1898
It previously appeared from a pencil minute by Abeken on a report from
Fabrice that we had offered, or that the French had demanded, something
more than this, namely, in addition to the complete isolation of the
city and the passage of the French troops through our lines, we should,
in case the French Government asked for our support, give it in the
shape of an artillery attack upon the enceinte, and, if the French
storming parties were to fail, use all our forces to prevent a pursuit
on the part of the Parisians.
_May 20th._--According to a report from Stuttgart of the 17th instant,
von Wachter, the Würtemberg Minister for Foreign Affairs, had remarked
that King Charles now considered Würtemberg not to have been properly
treated in connection with the Frankfurt treaty of peace (on the
previous day he had known nothing about it), and he appeared to feel
hurt at this. The Würtemberg Minister at Munich has reported that
the treatment of Bavaria in connection with the conclusion of peace
is greatly blamed in competent circles there, and that Count Quadt
has been instructed to give expression to this dissatisfaction. It
is doubtless Bavaria, therefore, that has altered the sentiments of
Würtemberg.
Count von F., who has been in London, has informed Balan that the
French Ambassador to the English Court, as well as the Duc de Grammont,
have attracted a great deal of attention by their want of tact. The
former had remarked to the Count in a reproachful tone that the
Socialists in Paris had been principally recruited in Belgium. Grammont
predicted the approaching return of Napoleon to France, and added, “_Et
alors on va bientôt mettre fin à cette ridicule chose qu’on appelle la
Belgique._” Prince Napoleon, on the other hand, had observed to the
Count that the neutrality of Belgium was an advantage to France during
the last war. Baron Baude, the French Minister in Brussels, had stated
in the presence of the English Minister d’Anethan that immediately
after the Versailles troops had taken possession of Paris the National
Assembly would proclaim the Comte de Chambord as King.
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