‘Not long before, Charlotte…’: Château de Vêves, Family papers. Private diary.
‘By early 1824…’: José Cabanis, Charles X, roi ultra (Paris 1972), p. 289.
‘On the afternoon…’: Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (New York 1986), p. 122.
‘“I have always…”’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, letter of 6 January 1823.
‘“Perhaps I am…”’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, letter of February 1824.
‘For many travellers…’: Benjamin Colbert, Shelley’s Eye: Travel Writing and the Aesthetic Vision (London 2005), p. 125.
‘The Piazza di Spagna…’: Maurice Andrieux, Les Français à Rome (Paris 1968), p. 354.
‘She was still very beautiful…’: E. J. Delécluze, Impressions Romaines: Carnet de Route d’Italie: 1823–1824 (Paris 1942), p. 36.
‘“But I hardly…”’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, letter of 28 November 1825.
‘Frédéric, as outspoken…’: Henri Contamine, Diplomatie et diplomates sous la Restauration (Paris 1970), p. 206.
Chapter 17
‘Spring…’: see Alain Corbin, The Foul and the Fragrant: Odor and the French Social Imagination (New York 1986); Anne Martin-Fugier, La Vie élégante (Paris 1990); Philip Mansel, The Court of France: 1789–1830 (Cambridge 1988).
‘At court…’: T. E. B. Howarth, Citizen King (London 1961), p. 132.
‘In this outfit…’: see Comtesse d’Agoult, Souvenirs et journaux (Paris 1990).
‘But the Dauphin…’: José Cabanis, Charles X, roi ultra (Paris 1972), p. 442.
‘“My one wish…”’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, letter to Hadelin, n.d.
‘Among those…’: see Thérèse Rouclette, La Folle Équipée de la Duchesse de Berry (La Roche sur Yon 2004); Général Dermoncourt, La Vendée et Madame (Paris 1834); Gustave Gautherot, L’héroique Comtesse: Correspondance de la Comtesse Auguste de la Rochejacquelein (Paris 1922).
‘It was at this point that Aymar…’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, unpublished memoir by Aymar de la Tour du Pin.
‘The Fort du Hâ…’: See Jean-Jacques Déogracias, Le fabuleux destin du Fort du Hâ (Bordeaux 2006).
‘The walls of Paris…’: see Fanny Trollope, Paris and the Parisians (London 1836); Duchesse de Maillé. Souvenirs des deux restaurations (Paris 1984).
Chapter 18
‘Their first glimpse…’: see M. Curreli and A. L. Johnson (eds), Paradise of Exiles: Shelley and Byron in Pisa (Salzburg 1988).
‘“I am busy describing…”’: Château de Vêves, Family papers, letter to Félicie. n.d.
‘“Our civilisation…”’: T. E. B. Howarth, Citizen King (London 1961), p. 304.
Time Line
1770
25 February
Birth of Lucie-Henriette Dillon in the rue du Bac, Paris
1774
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette ascend the throne of France
1778
5 April
Departure of Lucie’s father, Arthur Dillon, for the American War of Independence
1782
8 September
Death of Lucie’s mother, Thérèse-Lucy Dillon
1787
22 May
Lucie marries Frédéric de Gouvernet and is presented at court
1789
5 May
Estates General meet in Versailles
14 July
Fall of the Bastille
1790
M. de la Tour du Pin made Minister for War
19 May
Birth of Humbert
1791
20 June
Flight of royal family to Varennes
October
Lucie and Frédéric (and Humbert) leave for Holland where he is now ambassador
1792
March
Frédéric dismissed
20 April
France declares war on Austria
August
Prussian and Austrian troops invade France
10 August
The storming of the Tuileries and the massacre of the Swiss Guard
22 September
French Republic proclaimed
1793
January
Lucie returns to Paris
21 January
Louis XVI guillotined
March
Lucie and Frédéric go to Le Bouilh, Bordeaux
September
Birth of Séraphine
October
Marie Antoinette guillotined
1794
January
Terror reaches its peak in Bordeaux
March
Lucie, Frédéric and the children leave for America
13 April
Arthur Dillon is guillotined
28 April
Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin is guillotined
June
Lucie and Frédéric buy a farm near Albany
1795
September
Death of Séraphine
1796
6 May
Lucie, Frédéric and Humbert return to Bordeaux via Spain
1 November
Birth of Charlotte
2 November
Directoire set up; it would last until November 1799
1797
July
Lucie, Frédéric, Humbert and Charlotte go to Paris
4 September
Coup d’état of 18 fructidor
November
Lucie, Frédéric and the children flee to England
1798
Birth of Edward and, three months later, his death
1799
Lucie, Frédéric, Humbert and Charlotte return to Paris via Holland
November
Consulat set up, with Napoleon as First Consul
1800
13 February
Lucie gives birth to Cécile
September
Family goes to settle at Le Bouilh
1802
25 March
Treaty of Amiens signed with Britain
2 August
Napoleon appointed First Consul for Life
1804
28 May
Napoleon becomes Emperor
1805–6
Series of military victories by Napoleon across Europe
1806
18 October
Birth of Aymar
1808
12 May
Frédéric appointed Prefect of the Dyle and family moves to Brussels
1810
1–2 April
Having divorced Josephine, Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
End of April
Lucie attends on Marie-Louise in Brussels
1813
May
Marriage of Charlotte to Auguste de Liederkerke Frédéric dismissed from Brussels but appointed Prefect of Amiens. Family moves to Amiens.
1812
Disastrous Russian campaign
1814
1 January
The Allies invade France
20 April
Napoleon sails for Elba
3 May
Louis XVIII arrives in Paris
1 November
Frédéric sent to represent France at Congress of Vienna
Lucie settles in Paris
1815
20 March
Napoleon returns to Paris and Louis XVIII flees to Ghent
Lucie returns to Brussels
18 June
Napoleon defeated at Waterloo and sent to be held on St Helena; in his entourage are Lucie’s half-sister Fanny and her husband
Frédéric returns as Ambassador to Holland
1816
28 January
Death of Humbert, aged 25, in a duel
1817
20 March
Death of Cécile, at the age of 17, from tuberculosis
1820
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Lucie decides to write her memoirs
Frédéric appointed Ambassador to Turin
1822
1 September
Death of Charlotte, at 25, from tuberculosis. Her 2-year-old daughter, Cécile, comes to live with Lucie
1824
16 September
Death of Louis XVIII; his brother ascends throne as Charles X
1830
February
Lucie and Frédéric visit Paris for the first time in 10 years
2 August
Abdication of Charles X; Louis-Philippe becomes King
Frédéric resigns and moves back to Le Bouilh
1832
Aymar implicated in failed coup by the Duchesse de Berri
December
Frédéric is sent to prison in the Fort du Hâ
1833
20 March
Frédéric is released and they move to Italy
1836
Félicie lends them her house in Lausanne
1837
26 February
Death of Frédéric
1842
November
Lucie and Aymar move first to Lucca and then to Pisa
1848
Year of revolution in Europe
1852
Louis-Napoleon adopts the title of Napoleon III
1853
2 April
Death of Lucie in Pisa at the age of 83
Searchable Terms
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Abrantès, Laure, Duchesse d’, 318
Adam, Robert, 251
Adams, John, 84
Adélaide, Madame (Louis XV’s daughter), 9, 35, 140
Agoult, Mme d’, 424
Aigle, Espérance de l’, 70
Aix-la-Chapelle, Congress of (1818), 376
Albany, New York, 202, 204–7, 209, 219, 224
Albany Gazette, 207, 213
Albany Register, 205, 207, 219
Albignac, M. d’, 262
Alembert, Jean Le Rond d’, 17
Alexander I, Tsar of Russia, 346–7, 355, 385
Alexander (Tallien’s secretary), 190, 192
Ali Effendi, 243–4
Aliens Act, 1793 (Britain), 250, 374
America see United States of America
American Philosophical Society, 85
Ami du Peuple, L’ (newspaper), 118
Amiens: Frédéric appointed to, 337–9, 341; and Cossack threat, 344
Amiens, Peace of (1802), 292
Angoulême, Louis-Antoine, Duc d’, 351, 360, 409
Angoulême, Marie-Thérèse Charlotte, Duchesse d’ (‘Madame’), 35, 343, 346, 348–9, 352, 355, 360, 405
animals: imported and exotic, 57–8, 65
Antilles, 137
Antraigues, Comte d’, 148
Antwerp: falls to French, 158
Arblay, Alexandre d’, 265
Arenberg, Duchesse d’, 311
army (French): mutinies and disaffection, 127–8, 130, 133; émigré (Army of the Princes), 146, 149–50, 154
Arras, Bishop of, 174
Artois, Comte d’ see Charles X, King of France
Assembly of Notables, 67–8, 91
Atlante (ship), 196–7
Austen, Jane, 253
Austerlitz, Battle of (1805), 298, 317
Australia: penal settlement, 252
Austria: French fear invasion by, 103; treaty of alliance with Prussia, 149; defeated in wars with France, 325; rises against France, 343–4; at Congress of Vienna, 355; power in Italy, 384, 386–7
Autie, Léonard, 65, 79, 89
Aux, Henri d’, 300–1
Bachaumont, Louis Petit de: Secret Diary, 8
ballooning, 56–7
Barbaroux (Girondin), 179
Barlow, Joel, 201
Barnave, Antoine, 142
Barras, Paul François Jean Nicolas, Comte de, 238, 240, 245–6, 273, 282
Barthélemy, François de, 246
Bassano, Duchesse de, 315
Bastille: falls (1789), 101, 121
Baston, Abbé, 251
Baudot, Marc-Antoine, 178
Beauharnais, Alexandre, Vicomte de (Josephine’s husband), 284
Beauharnais, Hortense de see Hortense de
Beauharnais, Queen of Holland
Beauharnais, Louis (Hortense’s son), 325
Beaumarchais, Pierre Augustin Caron de: Les Deux Amis, 7; The Marriage of Figaro, 59–60
Beaumetz, Chevalier de, 208–10
Beauvau, Princesse de, 82, 281, 312, 400
Beck, Miss (Lucie’s English maid), 47, 49
Beck, Samuel, 223
Beckman, Ferdinand de, 428
Bedingfield, Charlotte, Lady (née Jerningham), 258, 365
Bedingfield, Sir Richard, 258
Belgium: history, 310; administration under Frédéric, 332–3; shortages and hardships, 334–5; union with Holland, 373; see also Brussels
Belinaye, Comte de, 262
Belle Chasse (convent), 87
Bellini, Vincenzo, 407
Benevento, 298
Bérenger, Pauline de, 324–5
Berlioz, Hector, 407
Bernadotte, General Jean-Baptiste (later King of Sweden), 346
Berri, Charles-Ferdinand, Duc de, 351, 355, 362, 378–9
Berri, Marie-Caroline, Duchesse de, 378, 405, 409, 412–14, 415–17, 420
Berry, Mary, 386
Berthier, Marshal Alexandre, 315
Bertholon, Abbé, 49
Bertin, Rose, 25, 64–6, 115, 161, 240
Bertrand (clockmaker), 178, 186–7
Bertrand, Fanny (née Dillon; Lucie’s half-sister): lives in Tuileries, 34–2–3; babyhood in West Indies, 52; as goddaughter to Lady Jerningham, 55; adolescence, 258; in love with Pignatelli, 301; marriage to Bertrand, 313–14, 319; in
Brussels, 330; and Lucie’s attempt to advance Humbert’s career, 336; accompanies Napoleon to Elba, 347; returns to Paris, 363; exile on St Helena, 370–1, 388; returns to Europe, 389; death, 424–5
Bertrand, General Henri, 301, 313–14, 330, 336, 343, 347, 371, 389, 425, 434
Bertrand, Henri (Fanny’s son), 371
Bertrand, Hortense (Fanny’s daughter), 371
Bertrand, Napoleon (Fanny’s son), 371, 388–9
Bessborough, Henrietta, Countess of, 267
Betz, Mme, 312
Binder, Baron Franz von, 386
Biron, Maréchal Henri de Goutaud de, 69–70
Blacas, Duc de, 348, 362, 413
Blaikie, Thomas, 58, 63
Blanc, Abbé de, 264
Blanchard (balloonist), 57
Blücher, General Gebbard Leberecht von, 366
Bochsa, Mme, 280
Bohmer, Charles Auguste and Paul Bassenge (Paris jewellers), 60–1
Boigne, Adèle de (née d’Osmond), 263, 266, 314–15, 350, 372, 410, 423
Boigne, General de, 263
Bombelles, Marc Marie, Marquis de, 7, 45, 65, 71
Bonald, Louis de, 392
Bonaparte, Princess Elisa, 430
Bonaparte, Jerome, 316, 328
Bonaparte, Joseph, King of Spain, 306, 316
Bonaparte, Louis, King of Holland, 299, 316
Bonaparte, Marie-Letizia (Napoleon’s mother; ‘Madame Mère’), 297, 347, 363, 397
Bonie (Bordelais), 182, 189–92, 226, 231
Bordeaux: Archbishop Dillon visits, 59; Lucie and Frédéric move to, 167, 171–2; prosperity, 175–6; Terror in, 177–9, 183, 186–7, 192, 204; food shortages, 183; celebrations, 185–6; revives, 289, 300; omnibus, 424
Bordeaux, Duc de see Chambord, Comte de
Borghese, Prince, 383
Borghese, Princess Pauline (née Bonaparte), 315, 383, 397
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p; Borodino, Battle of (1812), 335
Boston, Mass., 197–201
Bouchardon, Edmé, 12
Boufflers, Chevalier de, 82, 281, 400
Bougainville, Louis Antoine de, 57
Bouilh, Le (château): as La Tour du Pin family home, 70, 73–4; and Lucie and Frédéric’s move to Bordeaux, 167, 173; character, 169–70; vineyards, 176; sequestered, 184, 188; seals lifted, 227; appropriated by municipality, 231; Lucie and Frédéric return to and recover, 231–2, 288–9; deterioration, 232; and Lucie’s financial difficulties, 281; attempted sale, 391, 401, 411, 415, 421–2; left to Aymar, 391; in Frédéric’s retirement, 411; sold, 423
Bouillé, Marquis de, 127, 129, 133
Bouillon, Prince de, 260
Bouillon, Princesse de, 82, 266–7
Bourrienne, Louis-Antoine, 325
Boyd (ship’s cook), 197
Bradi, Comtesse de, 317
bread prices, 94
Bridgewater, Francis Egerton, 6th Earl of, 262
Brienne, Loménie de see Loménie de Brienne
Brillat-Savarin, Anthelme, 222, 404
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