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[Illustration: MADAME CHARLES MOULTON]

IN THE COURTS OF MEMORY1858-1875FROM CONTEMPORARY LETTERS

BYL. 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 indulgentmother and aunt, were returned to me after their death. In writing them Iallowed myself to go into the smallest details, even the mostinsignificant ones, as I was sure that they would be welcome andappreciated by those to whom they were addressed. They were certainly notintended to be made public.

If I have decided, after much hesitation, to publish these letters, it isbecause 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 someimportant events of the past, and especially to people of the musicalworld 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 giveso vivid a picture of the brilliant court of the last Napoleon, is thewife of the present Danish Minister to Germany. She was formerly MissLillie Greenough, of Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she lived with hergrandfather, Judge Fay, in the fine old Fay mansion, now the property ofRadcliffe College.

As a child Miss Greenough developed the remarkable voice which later wasto make her well known, and when only fifteen years of age her mother tookher to London to study under Garcia. Two years later Miss Greenough becamethe wife of Charles Moulton, the son of a well-known American banker, whohad been a resident in Paris since the days of Louis Philippe. As MadameCharles Moulton, the charming American became an appreciated guest at thecourt of Napoleon III. The Paris papers of the days of the Second Empireare filled with the praises of her personal attractions and exquisitesinging.

After nine years of gaiety in the gayest city in the world came the war of1870 and the Commune. Upon the fall of the Empire, Mrs. Moulton returnedto America, where Mr. Moulton died, and a few years afterward she marriedM. de Hegermann-Lindencrone, at that time Danish Minister to the UnitedStates, a

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