The romance of royalty; . tion, hehad taken his resolution. The first step in carryingit out was the conference he held in July, 1858,with Count Cavour at Plombieres. A man of immenseability and sturdy patriotism, Count Cavour gavehis whole life to the interest of his country, and atthis time was Prime Minister of the little kingdomof Savoy, ruled over by Victor Emanuel. His meeting with Napoleon had been arrangedby his Majestys friend and physician, Conneau, andwas so secretly conducted that Count Walewski, thenPrime Minister of France, knew nothing about ituntil it had ended. From what Pietr
The romance of royalty; . tion, hehad taken his resolution. The first step in carryingit out was the conference he held in July, 1858,with Count Cavour at Plombieres. A man of immenseability and sturdy patriotism, Count Cavour gavehis whole life to the interest of his country, and atthis time was Prime Minister of the little kingdomof Savoy, ruled over by Victor Emanuel. His meeting with Napoleon had been arrangedby his Majestys friend and physician, Conneau, andwas so secretly conducted that Count Walewski, thenPrime Minister of France, knew nothing about ituntil it had ended. From what Pietri, Cavour, andstill higher authorities, told Louis Kossuth of theconference, it resulted in an offer of the Emperorto give Savoy armed assistance to rid Italy of theAustrians ; but his Majesty reserved to himself theright of fixing the time for beginning the war. Mean-time Savoy was to foster politic agitation in Italy, wasto prevent all revolutionary outbreaks, and refrainfrom provoking Austria overmuch. * A united Italy. PRINCE BONAPARTE AND THE PRINCESS [Facing page 434. tlyc IRomance of the Seconb Empire 435 was not mentioned, continues Kossuth. It wassettled that the temporal power of the Holy Seeshould be preserved, but within very narrow parties spoke with the utmost caution as regardedTuscany and Naples ; but it was agreed that for theHouse of Savoy a kingdom of twelve million in-habitants in the north of Italy should be compensation for the promised military help, Savoywas to be ceded to France. It was decided that thequestion with regard to Nice should be settled later,when the war was over. It was also agreed at this conference that in orderto strengthen the alliance between France and Savoy,the Emperors cousin. Prince Napoleon, generallyknown as Plon Plon, should marry Victor Emanuelsonly daughter by his Queen, the Princess MarieTherese Louise Clotilde. At first Victor Emanuelhesitated to make such a sacrifice as this to hisambitions
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