Napoleon III, Emperor of France

After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. When her thoughts turned to the Italian struggle, her brilliant eyes flashed like...

Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus on the spine of...

As a character, Toussaint is highly idealised. He is distinguished from other slaves by lineage (an African royal grandfather like that of Behn 's Oroonoko before him), intelligence, self-education, and Christianity, as well...

HM had begun contributing to the Edinburgh Review in 1858 with a piece attacking Napoleon III for reviving the slave trade. She continued these contributions until her illness forced her to end them in 1868....

In politics MRM was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox , the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting...

Ouida 's father, Louis Ramé —he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a...

Visiting Paris with her sister and father , Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées after the recent coup d'état.

GS met with Louis Napoléon to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état.

QV and Prince Albert's state visit to Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie was the first visit to Paris by an English monarch since 1431.

It covers the state visit of Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie , and QV 's return visit to Paris with Albert .