In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters

L. De (Lillie De) Hegermann-Lindencrone

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[Illustration: MADAME CHARLES MOULTON]
IN THE COURTS OF MEMORY 1858-1875 FROM
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS
BY L. DE HEGERMANN-LINDENCRONEILLUSTRATIONS 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 LASALLE 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 VENDÔMEAFTER THE FALL OF THE
COLUMN FACSIMILE OF
TICKET TO PLACE VENDÔME
FACSIMILE OF ENVELOPE
ADDRESSED BY THE
EMPRESS EUGÉNIE TO
PRINCE METTERNICH
GIUSEPPE GARIBALDIPREFACE
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'srepresentative 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 been not only the ruling monarchs
of several countries, and the most distinguished
men and women of their courts, but almost all the
really important figures in the world of music of the
past half-century, among them Wagner, Liszt,
Auber, Gounod, and Rossini. And of many of these
great men the letters give us glimpses of the most
fascinatingly intimate sort.