In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875.

In the Courts of Memory
1858-1875.

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[Illustration: MADAME CHARLES MOULTON]

IN THE COURTS OF MEMORY 1858-1875 FROM
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
BY L. DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE

ILLUSTRATIONS MADAME CHARLES MOULTON THE FAY
HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS EMPEROR
NAPOLEON III EMPRESS EUGÉNIE DANIEL FRANÇOIS ESPRIT
AUBER FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM THE DUKE DE MORNY
JENNY LIND THE MAIN FAÇADE--CHÂTEAU DE COMPIÈGNE
SALLE DES FÊTES--CHÂTEAU DE COMPIÈGNE CHÂTEAU DE
PIERREFONDS THE MUSIC HALL--CHÂTEAU DE COMPIÈGNE
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM JENNY LIND FACSIMILE OF
LISZT LETTER MÉRIMÉE'S SIGNATURE AND ANSWERS TO
MADAME MOULTON'S QUESTIONS LA SALLE DES
PREUX--CHÂTEAU DE PIERREFONDS.... PRINCE
METTERNICH'S SIGNATURE AND ANSWERS TO MADAME
MOULTON'S QUESTIONS NAPOLEON'S SIGNATURE AND
ANSWERS TO MADAME MOULTON'S QUESTIONS EMPRESS
EUGÉNIE'S SIGNATURE AND ANSWERS TO MADAME
MOULTON'S QUESTIONS ELIHU WASHBURN RUE DE RIVOLI,
WHERE THE HÔTEL CONTINENTAL NOW STANDS RAOUL
RIGAULT FACSIMILE OF PASSPORT ISSUED TO MADAME

MOULTON DURING THE COMMUNE FACSIMILE OF THE
GOVERNMENT PERMIT TO KEEP COWS PLACE VENDÔME
AFTER THE FALL OF THE COLUMN FACSIMILE OF TICKET
TO PLACE VENDÔME FACSIMILE OF ENVELOPE ADDRESSED
BY THE EMPRESS EUGÉNIE TO PRINCE METTERNICH
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDI

PREFACE
These letters, written by me in my younger days to a dear and indulgent
mother and aunt, were returned to me after their death. In writing them
I allowed myself to go into the smallest details, even the most
insignificant ones, as I was sure that they would be welcome and
appreciated by those to whom they were addressed. They were
certainly not intended to be made public.
If I have decided, after much hesitation, to publish these letters, it is
because many of my friends, having read them, have urged me to do so,
thinking that they might be of interest, inasmuch as they refer to some
important events of the past, and especially to people of the musical
world whose names and renown are not yet forgotten.
LILLIE DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE. BERLIN, _July,
1912._

NOTE
Madame de Hegermann-Lindencrone, the writer of these letters, which
give so vivid a picture of the brilliant court of the last Napoleon, is the
wife of the present Danish Minister to Germany. She was formerly
Miss Lillie Greenough, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lived
with her grandfather, Judge Fay, in the fine old Fay mansion, now the
property of Radcliffe College.
As a child Miss Greenough developed the remarkable voice which later
was to make her well known, and when only fifteen years of age her
mother took her to London to study under Garcia. Two years later Miss
Greenough became the wife of Charles Moulton, the son of a
well-known American banker, who had been a resident in Paris since
the days of Louis Philippe. As Madame Charles Moulton, the charming
American became an appreciated guest at the court of Napoleon III.
The Paris papers of the days of the Second Empire are filled with the

praises of her personal attractions and exquisite singing.
After nine years of gaiety in the gayest city in the world came the war
of 1870 and the Commune. Upon the fall of the Empire, Mrs. Moulton
returned to America, where Mr. Moulton died, and a few years
afterward she married M. de Hegermann-Lindencrone, at that time
Danish Minister to the United States, and later successively his
country's representative at Stockholm, Rome, and Paris.
Few persons of her day have known so many of those whom the world
has counted great. Among her friends have