Excerpt from The Life of Napoleon III, Vol. 3 of 4: Derived From State Records, From Unpublished Family Correspondence, and From Personal Testimony This party, during the latter half of Louis Philippe's reign, was, indeed, more active and more en évz'dence than Orleanist or Republican writers have chosen to admit. There was the famous Société du Dix Décembre; the Club des Culottes de Peau, composed mainly of old officers of the Empire, as De Montholon, Voisin, and Bouffet de Montauban; and there was the Club des Cotillons, where Bonapartist ladies - Mesdames Salvage de Faverolles, Hamelin, and regnault-saint-jean-d'angely - talked treason behind their fans. The wits were merry, however, at the old grognards, at the ladies who hoped to walk through a cotillon back to the Empire, at the journalists who, with the elegant and spiritual Mocquard at their head, kept the Napoleonic tradition alive, and at the hero of Strasburg and Boulogne. Louis Philippe was at last persuaded that he had buried the mighty legend under the dome of the Invalides, and put the sword of Austerlitz on the same mouldering cushion with that of Charlemagne. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.