The Sunny Side of Diplomatic Life, 1875-1912

The Sunny Side of Diplomatic
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by Lillie
DeHegermann-Lindencrone

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THE SUNNY SIDE OF DIPLOMATIC LIFE
1875-1912

By
L. DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE
Author of "In The Courts of Memory"

ILLUSTRATED WITH PORTRAITS, FACSIMILES, ETC.

Harper & Brothers Publishers New York and London MCMXIV
1913, 1914 By Harper & Brothers Printed in The United States of
America Published October, 1914

[Illustration: LILLIE DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE
Reproduced from the portrait painted in 1880 by B.C. Porter.]

CONTENTS
PAGE
NOTE vii
THE ALPHABET OF A DIPLOMAT ix
WASHINGTON, 1875-1880 1

ROME, 1880-1890 89
STOCKHOLM, 1890-1897 201
PARIS, 1897-1902 237
BERLIN, 1902-1912 277

ILLUSTRATIONS
LILLIE DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE Frontispiece
MRS. U.S. GRANT Facing p. 6
SARAH BERNHARDT " 12
DOM PEDRO " 12
HENRY W. LONGFELLOW " 50
JAMES G. BLAINE " 50
OLE BULL " 82
QUEEN MARGHERITA " 102
KING VICTOR EMANUEL " 106
TWO YOUNG QUEENS " 130
THE PALACE, MONZA (FRONT) " 136
PALACE AND GARDENS " 136
NOTE FROM F. LISZT " 152
AALHOLM. BUILT IN 1100 " 168

INSCRIPTIONS IN ONE OF THE ROOMS AT AALHOLM,
BEARING THE DATE 1585 " 168
FRANCESCO CRISPI " 198
KING OSCAR " 212
THE KING OF SWEDEN " 220
THE RIKSDAG OF SWEDEN " 224
FACSIMILE OF LETTER FROM GRIEG " 230
A LETTER IN ENGLISH FROM KING OSCAR " 234
JULES MASSENET AT THE HEIGHT OF HIS CAREER " 246
A NOTE FROM MASSENET " 248
FÉLIX FAURE WHEN PRESIDENT OF FRANCE " 252
LINES FROM "LA PRINCESSE LOINTAINE" WITH ROSTAND'S
AUTOGRAPH " 260
BJÖRNSON " 270
THE EMPRESS OF GERMANY ON HER FAVORITE MOUNT "
280
EMPEROR WILLIAM IN THE UNIFORM OF THE GUARDS " 280
TWO VIEWS OF ROYALTY " 282
THE THRONE-ROOM OF THE ROYAL PALACE, BERLIN " 290
QUEEN LOUISE OF DENMARK " 296
THE ROYAL PALACE AND LUSTGARTEN, BERLIN " 306

COUNT HATZFELDT " 326
THE EMPEROR IN 1905 " 332

NOTE
MADAME DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONE, the writer of these
letters, is the wife of the recently retired 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.
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 periods his country's representative at Stockholm,
Rome, Paris, Washington and Berlin.

THE ALPHABET OF A DIPLOMAT
Ambassador A man, just a little below God. Attaché The lowest rung of
the ladder. Blunder How absurd! Why, never!... Chancellery The
barn-yard where he is plucked. Chief The cock of the walk. Colleagues
A question merely of time and place. Court Where one learns to make
courtesies. Decorations The balm for all woes. Dinners The surest road
to success. Disponsibility The Styx, whence no one returns. Esprit (de
corps) The corps is there, but where is the esprit? Etiquette The Ten
Commandments. Finesse A narrow lane where two can walk abreast.

Friendships Ships that pass in the night. Gotha (almanack) The Bible
of a Diplomat. Highness His, Her, make a deep courtesy. Ignoramus A
person who does not agree with you. Innuendo An obscure side-light of
truth. Joke Something beneath the dignity of a diplomat to notice.
Knowledge (private) News which every one already knows. Legation
Apartments to let. Letters (de créance) The first impression. Letters (de
rappel) The last illusion. Majesté (lèse) Too awful to think of.
Majesties Human beings with royal faults. Nobodies People to be
avoided like poison. Opulence When in service. Pension Too small