Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . reatladies with regard to whose marriagesthere was something irregular. It was the fashion at the close of theEmpire to say that the Empress wasresponsible for a great part of the socialdemoralization; but this was made vigorous ef
Descriptive portraiture of Europe in storm and calm; twenty years' experiences and reminiscences of an American journalist, sketches and records of noted events, celebrated persons and places, national and international affairs in France, Spain, Germany, Great Britain, Holland, Belgium, Austria, Hungary, Roumania, Turkey-in-Europe, Switzerland and Italy . reatladies with regard to whose marriagesthere was something irregular. It was the fashion at the close of theEmpire to say that the Empress wasresponsible for a great part of the socialdemoralization; but this was made vigorous efforts at times topurge the Court of the disreputablepersonages who hung upon its out- EUROPE IX STORM AND CALM. 35 skirts, and she was now and then sue- after the opening of the first season at cessful. Compi^gne that an Plmpire was a costly The French nation discovered shortly luxury. It would be difficult for Rei)ub- licaus to understand the absolute^.-^i. liberty which the Emperor had of bestowing money upon hisfavorites, and the license withwhich he lavished the nationalfunds upon the amusements ofthe Court. Marshal Magnan,who had taken a vigorous part inthe iov/) (VEtat, was made grandvoveiir, or the Imperial Master ofthe Hounds, \^ith an annual salaryof 100,000 francs. This was moremoney than Louis XIV. gave toRohan for the same service. Na-. THE FllENCll KMIKIKJ!. \ M AT COMPl£(iNK. 36 EUROPE m STORM AND CALM. poleon treated his favorites witli greatliberality, and tliis Marshal Magnan, be-sides his ofllce at Compiegne, had 40,000francs as general-in-ehief of the army ofParis; 40,000 francs as a marshal ofFrance ; 30,000 francs as senator; and6,000 francs as the perquisites of hisposition in the Legion of Honor. CountEdgar Ney, who Avas also a grand officerin the Imperial chase, received 40,000francs yearly, and aristocratic gentle-men whose only labors during the jearconsisted in keeping the packs of houndswell furnished, in buying horses inEngland or in Hung
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