
The Memoirs Of Dr. Thomas W. Evans : Recollections Of The Second French Empire
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The Memoirs Of Dr. Thomas W. Evans : Recollections Of The Second French Empire
About this book
Despite not speaking a word of French, the intrepid Dr. Evans left his native Philadelphia for Paris. His professional qualifications as a dentist did not seem to indicate that his life be filled with the adventures that he gleefully threw himself into. Within a short period in Paris, he became renowned for his medical skill and enjoyed the confidences of Kings, Princes and no less a person than the Emperor Napoleon III. He acted as a go-between among the crowned heads of Europe with his engaging manner. As the American consul-general William Seward wrote: "IT SOMETIMES HAPPENS when the crowned heads of Europe wish to communicate with one another without any responsibility they send for Evans to fix their teeth. As you are not likely to send so far for a dentist, I need only add that the messages of this sort, which he bears, are always communicated to him by word of mouth and in the presence of no witnesses."
His memoirs of the second Empire read both an engaging personal narrative and a secret view of the life of the court through tumultuous times including the diplomatic problems surrounding the Civil War, attempts at Coups d'état, numerous political plots, and disastrous Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71.
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Table of contents
- Title page
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I - THE BEGINNINGS OF A FRIENDSHIP
- CHAPTER II - CHARACTER OF THE EMPEROR
- CHAPTER III - THE MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR
- CHAPTER IV - THE IMPERIAL COURT-THE WAR OF THE REBELLION
- CHAPTER V - THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT OF FRANCE
- CHAPTER VI - THE FRANCO-GERMAN WAR OF 1870-71
- CHAPTER VII - THE FRENCH ARMY-SEDAN AND BISMARCK
- CHAPTER VIII - THE FALL OF THE SECOND EMPIRE
- CHAPTER IX - DEPARTURE OF THE EMPRESS FROM THE TUILERIES
- CHAPTER X - THE REVOLUTION-THE EMPRESS AT MY HOUSE
- CHAPTER XII - ON THE ROAD TO THE COAST
- CHAPTER XIII - DEAUVILLE-THE EMBARKATION
- CHAPTER XIV - THE MEETING BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON
- CHAPTER XV - I VISIT THE EMPEROR-DIPLOMACY
- CHAPTER XVI - INTRIGUES AND MORE DIPLOMACY
- CHAPTER XVII - THE END OF THE WAR-THE COMMUNE
- CHAPTER XVIII - DEATH OF THE EMPEROR
- APPENDICES