his flirtations make no startling tale, 104; his friendship with Frau Schratt, 104-113; his love of field sports, 113-115; story of his attentions to a peasant girl, 116; at war with France and Italy, 123-130; summons Sardinia to disarm, 124; took part himself in the war, 128, 129; his sullenness over the terms of peace, 129, 130; Italian hatred of him, 131; refuses Italy’s offer to buy Venetia, 133; Offers to cede Venetia if Italy will leave him free to deal with Prussia—has to surrender it as result of the defeat at Sadowa, 134; his treatment of General Benedek, 135-141; sends for Deák, 144; and comes to terms with Hungary, 144, 145; his coronation at Buda-Pesth, 145, 146; he was stronger after Sadowa than before, 146; in negotiation with Napoleon on the Triple Alliance, 149; and with Victor Emmanuel, 150; in public affairs has the luck which saves him from his blunders, 160; in private is spared no sorrows, 161-163; his attitude as head of the family to Maximilian’s acceptance of the throne of Mexico, 167-171; helpless to aid Maximilian, 180; he might excuse himself had he taken no steps to aid him, 183, 184; but he did all he could without avail, 184-186; rumour that he was father of Mary Vetsera, 229; his reception of the news of the Meyerling tragedy, 230; his displeasure with Archduke John Salvator, 236, 242, 243; his last communication with him, 248; sends a cruiser to search the coast of Chili for John Orth, 254; sometimes visited the Empress at Cap Martin, 264; his reception of the news of the Empress’s death, 269-271; his varying attitude to morganatic marriages, and marriages between the Habsburgs and commoners, 286-293; permits the marriage of Princess Stéphanie to Count Lonyay, 294-296; and of her daughter Elizabeth to Otto von Windischgraetz, 297-299; his anxiety for his nephew, Francis Ferdinand to marry, 303; he sanctions the marriage with Countess Sophie Chotek as morganatic—his speech to the Privy Council, 307, 308; he retains more mediæval ideas than any ruler of to-day, 309, 310; his interview with Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 328; his long reign and great age, 341; his unique reign, 350 _Francis Joseph I., His Life and Times_, _see_ Mahaffy, R. P. _Francois Joseph Intime_, _see_ Weindel, H. de Franco-Prussian War, 148-157 Frederick, Archduke, 303, 305 Frederick IV., Emperor, 23 Frederick August, King of Saxony, 319 Frederick the Great, 21, 32, 57 Frederick, Landgrave of Furstenberg, 48 “Fried Fish,” _see_ Bratfisch Frossard, General, 153, 169 Fugger, Countess, 337 Gabrielle, Archduchess, 303, 304 Galippe, Dr., _L’hérédité des Stigmates de Dégénérescence_, 10, 12, 13 Geneva, 60, 267 Georgei, 54 German Federation, the, 3, 132, 134 _Giornale d’Italia_, Victor Emmanuel’s letter to Napoleon in, 150