Maximilian, Archduke, brother of Francis Joseph, afterwards Emperor of Mexico, at the abdication of the Emperor Ferdinand, 47, 48; the tragedy of his death, 60, 161, 163, 164, 185; his unpopularity in Venice, 127, 146, 165; invited to be Emperor of Mexico, 164; unfitted for post—the tool of Napoleon and the Mexican exiles—dismissed from his government of Venetia, 165: retires to Miramar and writes poetry—egged on by his wife to accept the Mexican throne, 166; stipulates for French military support, 167; the _pacte de famille_, 167, 168; he objects to renouncing his Austrian rights, 168; the _pacte_ signed at Miramar, 169, 170; his gloomy forebodings, 170, 171; Pius IX. blesses the enterprise, 171, 172; his wife keeps up his spirits on the voyage, 172; looking to the ceremonial aspect of the enterprise, and the disillusionment, 173; French Army of Occupation withdrawn, 173, 175, 182; nothing but pride prevented his abdication, 181; exclaims that he is free when the French Army had gone—he goes to Queretaro and is captured, 182; he had instructed Miramon to condemn Juarez to death, 183; is shot in the public square at Queretaro, 185; his body brought to Europe and buried in the tombs of the Habsburgs, 187 Maximilian I. of Bavaria, grandfather of Francis Joseph, 22, 29 Maximilian, Duke, in Bavaria, 72, 75, 100, 189 Mazzini, G., 344 Mélanie, Princess, _see_ Metternich, Princess Mendel, Henrietta, 188, 276 Mérode, Cléo de, 196, 286 Metternich, Clemens, Prince, the author of the Holy Alliance, 4; instructs Francis Joseph in statecraft, 30; a greater man than any whom he served, 32; a policeman at heart, 34; the object of popular hostility, 41; his resignation, 42; Archduchess Sophie’s letter to him, 44; his reply—his flight to England, 45; had been concerned in advising Ferdinand’s abdication, 47 Metternich, Princess Mélanie, 35, 36, 39-44, 50 Metternich, Count Richard, a special constable in London, 43, 155; Austrian Ambassador in Paris, 155 Mexico, 60, 161, 163-186 Meyerling, 60, 93, 118, 161, 187, 194, 207, 208, 211-216, 218-231, 242, 245, 246, 266, 269 Middleton, Capt. “Bay,” 91 Miguel of Braganza, 203 Milan, 36, 128, 146 Minghetti, Marco, 152 Miramar, 165, 166, 169-171, 179, 181 Miramon, General, 182, 183 Moltke, Baron von, 136, 140 Montez, Lola, 25, 72 Morny, Comte de, 165 _My Own Story_, _see_ Louisa, Princess of Tuscany _My Past_, _see_ Larisch, Countess Marie Napoleon I., 2, 22, 24, 26, 27 Napoleon III., 43, 65, 66, 123-125, 128-130, 149-151, 154, 165, 167, 169, 171, 175, 177-179 Nash, Eveleigh, 247, 256, 257 Nauheim, 266 _Neue Freie Presse_, a bogus advertisement in its agony column, 108; on the character of the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, 327, 328