Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L.: In Two Volumes. Volume II.Reeve, Henry
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Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L.: In Two Volumes. Volume II.
Reeve, Henry
Journalists -- Great Britain -- 19th century -- Biography; Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895; Reeve, Henry, 1813-1895 -- Correspondence
Sheen House, 7 mai.
Mon cher Monsieur Reeve ,--Nous aussi, nous n'avons pas oublie votre
presence a notre mariage le 30 mai 1864. La Comtesse de Paris et moi nous
sommes bien touches de la maniere dont vous nous le rappelez, et je vous
remercie de tout coeur de ce que vous me dites et des voeux que vous
m'adressez en cette occasion. Au milieu de toutes les vicissitudes de notre
vie pendant ces vingt-cinq ans nous avons ete constamment soutenus par
le bonheur domestique que cette union nous a donne et par toutes les
satisfactions que nous ont causees nos enfants.
Lorsque j'ai recu votre lettre j'allais vous ecrire, ainsi qu'a Madame
Reeve, de vouloir bien venir ici le 30 mai dans l'apres-midi: nous recevons
entre 2 et 5 tous les amis qui viendront feter cet anniversaire avec nous.
Je me souviens bien que Madame Reeve etait avec vous a la chapelle de
Kingston, mais ma memoire n'est pas sure en ce qui concerne Madame votre
fille. Je vous serais bien reconnaissant de me faire savoir si elle etait
avec vous ce jour-la. En attendant je vous prie de me croire Votre bien
affectionne,
PHILIPPE COMTE DE PARIS.
The Journal notes:--
_May 7th._--The Club: Due d'Aumale, Lord Salisbury, Wolseley, Carlisle, A.
Russell, Hewett, Stephen--very brilliant.
_8th_.--Returned to Foxholes.
_16th_.--Drove to Heron Court. Lord Malmesbury dying.
_17th_.--Lord Malmesbury died. 22nd, attended his funeral in Priory Church.
29th, to London.
_30th_.--The silver wedding of the Comte and Comtesse de Paris at Sheen.
All the French Royalties, Prince of Wales, &c. About five hundred people;
169 persons still alive who were at the wedding in 1864. A silver medal was
sent to all the survivors.
_From M. B. St.-Hilaire_
_Paris, June 6th_.--If I am free in the autumn, it will give me great
pleasure to pay you another visit at Foxholes; the first has left a
pleasant memory, and I ask no better than to repeat it. But, without having
to complain of old age, I find more difficulty in going about. I am not
exactly ill, but my strength gradually fails--a sign that the end is not
far off.
I foresaw that General Boulanger would have no success in England; you are
much too serious for such a nature as his. His popularity diminishes daily;
and if the Cabinet act with judgement from now to the October elections,
I have no doubt they may regain public favour. The triumph of Boulangism
would be the signal for horrible anarchy at home and war abroad, provoked
by the madmen who had climbed into power.
Monarchy, in the person of the Comte de Paris, is losing rather than
gaining ground here. If France should ever return to a dynasty, it would be
more likely to be the Bonapartes. The terrible name of Napoleon has still
an immense _prestige_, however unworthy his successors.
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