Identifier: theirmajestiesas00paoluoft (find matches)
Title: Their majesties as I knew them; personal reminiscences of the kings and queens of Europe
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Paoli, Xavier, 1835- Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921
Subjects: Europe -- Kings and rulers
Publisher: New York, Sturgis (and) Walton
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
'
Text Appearing After Image:
M. XAVIER PAOLI INTRODUCTIONM. XAVIER PAOLI THE chamberlain OF THE FRENCH REPUBLICAND THE FRIEND OF S0\T:REIGNS IT was in 1903, and the King of England wasmaking his first official journey in France sincesucceeding Queen Victoria on the throne ofGreat Britain. In the court of the British Em-bassy in Paris, where the sovereign had taken uphis residence, a group of journalists, pencil andnotebook in hand, was crowding importunate,full of questions, around a vivacious little gentle-man, very precisely dressed in black, wearing thered rosette of the Legion of Honour in the button-hole of his silk-faced frock coat. An impressivesilk hat, slightly tipped, sheltered a head of abun-dant wavy white hair, strikingly in contrast withthe mans still youthful appearance; at the utmosthe seemed to be hardly fifty years old. His aristocratic bearing might have been that ofa diplomat of the Empire or a Tuscan aristocrat.The sensitve features of his finely oval face—^the vi INTRODUCTION straight, del

Note About Images