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Title: Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: the second French empire
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Evans, Thomas Wiltberger, 1823-1897 Crane, Edward Augustus, 1832-1906
Subjects: France -- Court and courtiers France -- History Second Empire, 1852-1870
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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English language perfectly, and the Emperor had that broad way of looking at things, those liberal ideas, that love of progress, which enabled him to appreciate the greatness of our rapidly growing country, the energy of our men, the beauty and elegance of our women, their sparkling wit and self-dependence. In fact Americans were always well received at the Imperial Court, especially if they were men or women of distinction, intelligence, and refinement; and the number of these, particularly of women remarkable for their social accomplishments, who were to be found in Paris during the Empire, either as residents or as occasional visitors, was very large. Less rigid in its etiquette than most European courts, and at the same time more splendid in its ceremonial forms; the center of political power on the Continent, and the mirror of fashion for the whole world; a stage on which were assembled the celebrities of the day, statesmen, diplomatists, generals, persons eminent in letters and in art, men
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THE EMPRESS EUGENIE. From a photograph taken about 1865. THE IMPERIAL COURT 107 distinguished in every field of human interest, and women as famous for their wit as for the elegance of their toilets and their personal charms, preeminent among whom was the lovely Empress herself, a vision of beauty and grace, always with a pleasant word, or a sweet smile, or a bow of recognition for every one—is it wonderful that Paris, in those days, seemed most attractive to Americans? It used often to be said, Paris is the heaven of Americans; and we were even encouraged by the late Mr. Tom Appleton, of Boston, to be virtuous and pious, by the assurance that all good Americans when they die go to Paris. And should this assurance be regarded by a few incorrigible skeptics as the language of transcendent metaphor, certainly no foreign visitors to the splendid capital of France were better able than we Americans to understand how a Frenchman, how Sainte Beuve could say: O Paris! c'est chez toi qui'l est doux de

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