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10. de Fournoux, op. cit., p. 100.

11. Lodovico Manin,
Memorie del Dogado,
Venice: Ongania, 1886, p. 24.

12. Alvise Mocenigo et al. to the Senate, Codroipo, 10 May 1797. Quoted by Giovanni Di Stefano e Giannantonio Paladini in
Storia di Venezia 1797–1997
, Venice: Supernova-Grafiche, 1997.

13. de Fournoux, op. cit., p. 102.

14. Alvise to Chiara Zen Mocenigo, Vienna, 22 May, 1801, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

15.
Il Monitore,
7 June 1797, Collezione Biblioteca nazionale marciana.

16. Ibid., 16 and 18 September 1797.

17. Ibid., 18 September 1797.

CHAPTER FIVE: COLONEL PLUNKETT

1. From an undated entry in Alvise’s Cahier de Lettres begun on 5 November, 1800, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

2. The passports are dated 28 June 1798, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 28.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 27 July 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Ibid.

5. Ibid.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 5 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 12 September 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 2 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Maximilian Plunkett to Paolina, Florence, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 12 September 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 2 August 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Florence, 13 October 1798, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Alvise’s travelling papers, dated 23 March 1799, are in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 28.

14. For a description of Colonel Plunkett’s role in the 1799 campaign in Switzerland, see
Geschichte des K. und K. Infanterie-Regiments Freiherr von Appel n.
60, Erlau, Vienna: Kriegs Archiv, 1898.

15. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. See
Geschichte.

17. Undated entry, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

18. Entry of 26 July, 1801, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

19. Ibid.

20. Ibid.

CHAPTER SIX: VIENNESE CAROUSEL

1. Entry of 5 November 1800, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

2. Undated entry, Cahier de Lettres, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 119.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 6 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Ibid.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 10 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 11 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 14 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 9 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Ibid.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 8 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 30 September 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Toeplitz, 6 August 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Lucia to Paolina, Teschen, 7 August 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Baden, 14 September 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 23 October 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 8 October 1801, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, September 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 11 October and 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 12 November 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Paolina, Abano, 14 April 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Magarethen, 8 January 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 25 December 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Ibid.

27. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 January 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

29. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 12 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 May 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 25 December 1802, AM, Lettere di L.M.

33. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

34. Ibid.

35. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 23 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 4 February 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, undated 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER SEVEN: THE EDUCATION OF ALVISETTO

1. The contents of this letter were kindly provided to me by Marco Leeflang and are quoted by Lolo Clary in his diary (entry of 6 September 1803). See Lolo,
Le journal du Comte Charles Joseph Clary-Aldringen,
Tome 2 (1803–1814), ed. Marco Leeflang, Utrecht: Marco Leeflang 1998, p. 92.

2. Baptismal Registry in the Archivio Patriarcale di Venezia.

3. Ibid.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 20 November 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Ibid.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Alvisopoli, 24 November 1803, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, May 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Ibid.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 24 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 7 September 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

13. Ibid.

14. Maria Contarini to Alvise, Vienna, 24 February 1804, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 126.

15. Ibid.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 September 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 30 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 22 June 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Details on Robertson’s projects were drawn from
Wonderful Balloon Ascents
by Fulgence Marion, translated from the French, London 1870 (etext also available on the Project Gutenberg website). See in particular Chapter VII.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 October 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 21 November 1804, AM, Lettere di L.M.

24. Ibid.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 January 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 16 January 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

28. Ibid.

29. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 March 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

30. Lucia to Paolina, 26 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 26 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

32. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 and 21 April, AM, Lettere di L.M.

33. Ibid.

34. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 19 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

35. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 21 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 17 April 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 15 and 16 February 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. The contract is in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, Carte di Alvisopoli, B 105.

39. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 1 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

42. Ibid., and Lucia to Paolina, 27 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

43. Ibid.

44. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 19 July 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

45. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 2 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

48. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 7 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

49. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 9 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

50. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 2 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

51. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 15 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

52. Lucia to Paolina, Margarethen, 22 August 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

53. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 1 October 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

54. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 November 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

55. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 3 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

56. Ibid.

57. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 5 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

58. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 13 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

59. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 31 December 1805, AM, Lettere di L.M.

60. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 18 June 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER EIGHT: LADY-IN-WAITING

1. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 18 December 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 8 January 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. The notes of Monsieur Vérand are in ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 10 March 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 17 March 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 14 April 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Vienna, 6 January 1806, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. Lucia to Paolina, Novara, 29 December 1807, AM, Lettere di L.M.

9. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 29 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

10. Ibid.

11. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 8 February 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

12. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 27 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L. M.

13. Alvise to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

14. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 27 January 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

15. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 17 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

16. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 21 January 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

17. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 13 February 1808, and 3 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

18. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 16 April 1808, AM, Lettere di L.M.

19. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 22 April 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

20. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

21. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 21 January 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

22. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 December 1809, AM, Lettere di L.M.

23. Quoted in
Joséphine,
by Ernest John Knapton, Milan: Mondadori, 1992, p. 284.

24. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 4, 13 and 19 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

25. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 13 April 1810, and Compiègne, 20 April 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

26. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 28 March 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

27. Ibid.

28. Ibid.

29. For details on Empress Marie Louise’s first days at Compiègne, see
Trois mois à Paris, lors du mariage de l’Empereur Napoléon I et de l’Archiduchesse Marie Louise,
by Prince Charles Clary-Aldringen, Paris: Plon, 1914.

30. Lucia to Paolina, Compiègne, 20 April 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid.

33. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

34. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 28 May and 6 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

35.
Trois mois à Paris,
p. 59.

36. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

37. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 7 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

38. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14, 28 May 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

39. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 11 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

40. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 8 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

41. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 11 June 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

42. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 14 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

43. Lucia to Alvisetto, Milan, 19 January 1811, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 146

44. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 1 and 6 April 1812, Archivio Memmo, Lettere di L.M.

45. The letter by Doctor Paletta is in Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 31 May 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

46. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 24 June 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

47. Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 28 July 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

48. Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 30 July 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

49. Alvisetto to Lucia, quoted in Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 6 August 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

50. Alvise’s comments are transcribed in a letter from Lucia to Paolina, Vicenza, 13 August 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

51. Ibid.

52. Lucia to Paolina, undated, AM, Lettere di L.M.

53. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 23 December 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

54. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, December 1812, AM, Lettere di L.M.

55. Lucia to Paolina, Milan, 23 September 1812, and 3 March 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

56. Lucia to Paolina, Vercelli, 7 April 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

CHAPTER NINE: A YEAR IN PARIS

1. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 25 April and 27 May 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

2. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 25 October 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

3. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 20 May 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

4. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 26 July 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

5. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 19 April 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

6. Lucia’s Paris Diary (LPD), ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

7. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 8 July 1810, AM, Lettere di L.M.

8. LPD, January 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

9. LPD, 4 June 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

10. Lucia to Paolina, Paris, 20 June 1813, AM, Lettere di L.M.

11. LPD, 12 May 1814, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

12. LPD, 18 June 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

13. LPD, 18 August 1813, ASV, Archivio Mocenigo, B 33.

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