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My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 By: Mary Alsop King Waddington (-1923) |
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MY FIRST YEARS AS A
FRENCHWOMAN [Illustration: Madame Waddington.
From a photograph taken in the year of the Exposition, 1878.] MY FIRST YEARS AS A
FRENCHWOMAN 1876 1879 BY MARY KING WADDINGTON ILLUSTRATED 1914
CONTENTS I. WHEN MACMAHON WAS PRESIDENT
II. IMPRESSIONS OF THE ASSEMBLY AT VERSAILLES
III. M. WADDINGTON AS MINISTER OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
IV. THE SOCIAL SIDE OF A MINISTER'S WIFE
V. A REPUBLICAN VICTORY AND A NEW MINISTRY
VI. THE EXPOSITION YEAR
VII. THE BERLIN CONGRESS
VIII. GAIETIES AT THE QUAI D'ORSAY
IX. M. WADDINGTON AS PRIME MINISTER
X. PARLIAMENT BACK IN PARIS
XI. LAST DAYS AT THE FOREIGN OFFICE INDEX
ILLUSTRATIONS MADAME WADDINGTON Frontispiece
From a photograph taken in the year of the Exposition , 1878. MONSIEUR THIERS MARSHAL MACMAHON SITTING OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AT THE PALACE OF VERSAILLES THE FOYER OF THE OPERA MEETING OF OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY, AND OF
DELEGATES OF THE NEW CHAMBERS, IN THE SALON OF
HERCULES, PALACE OF VERSAILLES THEODOR MOMMSEN PALACE OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, PARIS FRANZ LISZT WILLIAM E. GLADSTONE LORD LYONS HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS, EDWARD, PRINCE OF WALES, IN 1876 PRINCE HOHENLOHE M. WILLIAM WADDINGTON. IN THE UNIFORM HE WORE AS
MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND AT THE BERLIN
CONGRESS, 1878 NASR ED DIN, SHAH OF PERSIA PRINCE BISMARCK THE BERLIN CONGRESS M. JULES GRÉVY, READING MARSHAL MACMAHON'S LETTER
OF RESIGNATION TO THE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES M. JULES GRÉVY ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC BY
THE SENATE AND CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES MEETING AS
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY THE ELYSÉE PALACE, PARIS HER MAJESTY QUEEN VICTORIA, ABOUT 1879 M. DE FREYCINET MME. SADI CARNOT PRESIDENT SADI CARNOT
MY FIRST YEARS AS A FRENCHWOMAN
I
WHEN MACMAHON WAS PRESIDENT I was married in Paris in November, 1874, at the French Protestant
Chapel of the rue Taitbout, by Monsieur Bersier, one of the ablest and
most eloquent pastors of the Protestant church. We had just established
ourselves in Paris, after having lived seven years in Rome. We had a
vague idea of going back to America, and Paris seemed a first step in
that direction was nearer New York than Rome. I knew very little of
France we had never lived there merely stayed a few weeks in the
spring and autumn, coming and going from Italy. My husband was a deputy,
named to the National Assembly in Bordeaux in 1871, by his
Department the Aisne. He had some difficulty in getting to Bordeaux.
Communications and transports were not easy, as the Germans were still
in the country, and, what was more important, he hadn't any
money couldn't correspond with his banker, in Paris (he was living in
the country). However, a sufficient amount was found in the country, and
he was able to make his journey. When I married, the Assembly was
sitting at Versailles. Monsieur Thiers, the first President of the
Republic, had been overthrown in May, 1873 Marshal MacMahon named in
his place. W.[1] had had a short ministry (public instruction) under
Monsieur Thiers, but he was so convinced that it would not last that he
never even went to the ministry saw his directors in his own rooms. I
was plunged at once into absolutely new surroundings. W.'s personal
friends were principally Orleanists and the literary element of
Paris his colleagues at the Institute. The first houses I was taken to
in Paris were the Ségurs, Remusats, Lasteyries, Casimir Périers,
Gallieras, d'Haussonville, Léon Say, and some of the Protestant
families Pourtalès, André Bartholdi, Mallet, etc. It was such an
entirely different world from any I had been accustomed to that it took
me some time to feel at home in my new milieu. Political feeling was
very strong all sorts of fresh, young elements coming to the front... Continue reading book >>
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