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Excerpt from The Tragic Empress: Intimate Conversations With the Empress Eugénie, 1901 to 1911
It was through the Princess Mathilde that I had the honour of knowing the Empress Eugénie. One evening, towards the end of May, 1901, the Princess, with that quick, refreshing candour which always marked her, said to me:
"The Empress will soon be coming to Paris. She has read your books; I have sometimes told her about you, and she is curious to make your acquaintance. Now tell me quite frankly: are you disposed to meet her notwithstanding your official position?"
"Certainly, Madame. It will be only proper if I ask the authorization of my minister, M. Delcassé. But I know his generous open-mindedness, and I need not doubt his consent."
"Then it is agreed? I can inform the Empress of your visit?"
"I must thank Your Imperial Highness in advance."
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