Memoirs of Baron Hyde de Neuville : outlaw, exile, ambassador (v.1)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Memoirs of Baron Hyde de Neuville : outlaw, exile, ambassador (v.1)
Other titles: Mémoires et souvenirs du baron Hyde de Neuville
Classmark: Pencheon Collection HYD
Creator(s): Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume baron (1776-1857)
Additional creator(s): Pencheon, James Michael (1924-1982) (Former owner)
Related people: Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume, baron, 1776-1857; Hyde de Neuville, Jean Guillaume, baron, 1776-1857
Publisher: Sands & Co
Publication city: London
Date(s): [1913?]
Language: English
Size and medium: 2 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/783147
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991020958341205181
Description
Includes index.
Volume 1: Translator's preface / Frances Jackson -- My memoirs -- Childhood and youth -- Trial of the King -- The Terror -- The gilded youths -- War of the Little Vendee of Sancerre -- Royalist agents -- The 18th Fructidor -- The exiles in Sinnamary -- Project of a royalist rising -- Buonaparte's interviews with M. Hyde de Neuville -- Close of the war in La Vendée -- Journey to England with George Cadoudal -- Outlawed -- The 3rd Nivose, still outlawed -- Conspiracy of Pichegru and Cadoudal -- Mme. Hyde de Neuville and Napoleon -- On the way to exile, Barcelona -- On the way to exile, Cadiz -- Exile in the United States -- M. Paul Hyde de Neuville -- General Moreau -- Appendix A: Letter relating to the removal of Marie-Antoinette from the Temple to the Conciergerie -- Appendix B: Information obtained by Baron Hyde de Neuville with regard to the religious succour afforded to the Queen at the Conciergerie.
Volume 2: 'Measure the distance between Elba and France' -- Napoleon returns from Elba -- Royalists during the Hundred Days -- Return of Louis XVIII -- 'La chambre introuvable' -- Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States -- Buonapartist refugees -- Refugee conspirators -- Ambassador to Brazil and Minister to the United States -- Diplomat or Deputy? -- Ambassador to Portugal -- Eve of the revolution in Lisbon -- 'All Europe' on the way to Bemposta -- Ambassador of the most Christian King -- The King of Portugal takes refuge on board the 'Windsor Castle' -- 'What should be done with the Queen?' -- The coronation of Charles X -- The Martignac Ministry -- 'Chateaubriand, always Chateaubriand' -- Minister of Marine -- The Prince de Polignac -- The Revolution of July 1830 -- Last rising in La Vendée -- Baron Hyde de Neuville and the exiled Princess -- Lestang -- Index.
Provenance
Leeds University Library copy at Pencheon Collection HYD: From the collection of James Michael Pencheon (1924-1982).
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