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198
Healy put the final touches: Webster’s Reply to Hayne
still hangs in the place of honor at Faneuil Hall.

198
“It was a proud moment that”: Boston Transcript
, September 22, 1851.

198
The countenance—an admirable likeness: New York Times
, October 13, 1851.

198
“We must answer decidedly”:
Voss, “Webster Replying to Hayne: George Healy and the Economics of History Painting,” 48.

199
“However onerous to an artist”:
Healy,
Reminiscences of a Portrait Painter
, 166.

199
“a very castle of a man”: Memorial of James Fenimore Cooper
, 7.

199
Irving was one of those notables:
Ibid., 12.

199
“I never met with a more”:
Ibid., 36.

Often it is the secondary characters in events of the past, like secondary characters in the theater, who have the most pertinent or entertaining observations to contribute. This is certainly the case with the brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe and what he wrote about their time together in Paris.
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe, The Journal of Charles Beecher
, is pure delight and certainly confirms that she was not the only one in the family with talent. Likewise, the chronicle of Napoleon III and his Empress would not be the same absent all that is unfolded by their American dentist Thomas W. Evans in his book
The Second French Empire
.

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At last I have come: Stowe,
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
, Vol. II, 158.

201
“sleepwalker”:
Horne,
The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune
,
1870–1871
, 21.

201
Victor Hugo, on the other hand:
Ridley,
Napoleon III and Eugénie
, 225.

201
The British ambassador was “charmed”:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 17.

201
Richard Rush found the president:
Rush,
Occasional Productions, Political, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous
, 514.

201
William C. Rives of Virginia:
William Rives to Secretary of State Clayton, November 14, 1849, Library of Congress.

202
“He was very much better”:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 305.

202
As a private person:
Ibid., 305.

202
“His vulgar pleasures”:
Ibid.

202
To Evans, the president:
Evans,
Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: The Second French Empire
, 3.

202
“extraordinary self-control”:
Ibid., 7.

202
“My power is in an immortal name”:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 12.

203
Like Louis-Philippe:
Evans,
Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans: The Second French Empire
, 3, 7.

203
“Do you forget my years of study”:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 11.

203
Then in 1846 he shaved off:
Ibid., 71.

203
“It stands for order”:
Ibid., 15.

204
The air was “soft and hazy”: New York Times
, November 6, 1851.

204
They eat, drink:
Ibid.

204
There were, however, Evans later wrote:
Evans,
Memoirs of Dr. Thomas W. Evans
, 6.

204
At a formal reception:
Ibid.

204
“Rubicon”:
Ridley,
Napoleon III and Eugénie
, 295.

205
In a matter of hours:
Carson,
The Dentist and the Empress: The Adventures of Dr. Tom Evans in Gas-Lit Paris
, 20–21.

205
The American minister, William Rives:
Secretary of State Daniel Webster to William Rives, January 12, 1852, Webster,
The Papers of Daniel Webster, Diplomatic Papers
, Vol. 2, 1850–1852, 186.

205
“Napoleon the Little”:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 2.

205
The author of this crime:
Ibid., 284.

206
To a large part of the nation:
Carmona,
Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris
, 179–80.

206
He put a new prefect of the Seine:
Gooch,
The Second Empire
, 200.

206
“according to their degree of urgency”:
Carmona,
Haussmann: His Life and Times, and the Making of Modern Paris
, 9.

206
“demolition artist”:
Jones,
Paris: The Biography of a City
, 305.

207
“I could never forget”:
Carmona,
Haussmann
, 298.

207
Haussmann was vigorous:
Jordan,
Transforming Paris: The Life and Labors of Baron Haussmann
, 50.

207
With its population now more than a million:
Jones,
Paris: The Biography of a City
, 297.

207
The plan was to improve public health:
Ibid., 301.

208
Streets and boulevards would be lined:
Ibid., 313.

208
The emperor directed:
Ibid.; Horne,
The Fall of Paris
, 23.

208
“At every step is visible”:
Levenstein,
Seductive Journey: American Tourists in France from Jefferson to the Jazz Age
, 87.

208
Les Halles, a great new central market:
Jones,
Paris: The Biography of a City
, 316.

209
“Is there not something”:
Lytton,
The Parisians
, 107.

209
In the twists and curves:
Ibid., 107.

209
By 1869 some 2.5 billion:
Korn,
History Builds the Town
, 62.

209
“When building flourishes”:
Shapiro,
Housing the Poor of Paris: 1850–1902
, 33.

209
Acting on “inside” information:
Carson,
The Dentist and the Empress
, 69–75.

210
“floating palaces”: New York Times
, October 12, 1854.

210
The
Arctic: Shaw,
The Sea Shall Embrace Them: The Tragic Story of the Steamship
Arctic, 25.

210
“God grant the time”: New York Times
, October 12, 1854.

211
Two years later, in the spring of 1853:
Hedrick,
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
, 233.

211
Over half a million British women:
Ibid., 244.

212
“a saint”:
Fields,
Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe
, 154.

212
They crossed on the steamship
Canada: Hedrick,
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
, 233.

212
“At last I have come into a dreamland”:
Stowe,
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
, Vol. II, 158.

212
“a little bit of a woman”:
Hedrick,
Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Life
, 244.

212
Hatty was a natural “observer”:
Beecher,
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe: The Journal of Charles Beecher
, 163.

213
“My spirits always rise”:
Stowe,
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
, Vol. II, 164.

213
Whole families come, locking up their door:
Ibid., 153.

213
There were grayheaded old men:
Ibid.

214
“All is vivacity”:
Ibid., 147.

214
Seeing the emperor:
Ibid., 182.

214
“talked away, right and left”:
Beecher,
Harriet Beecher Stowe in Europe
, 155.

214
“Poor Hatty!”:
Ibid., 156–57.

214
“very touching”:
Ibid., 165.

214
Surely the “life artery”:
Stowe,
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands
, Vol. II, 149.

214
“And there is no scene”:
Ibid.

215
As the instinct:
Ibid.

215
“sublimity”:
Ibid., 150.

215
“rules of painting”:
Ibid., 157.

215
He chooses simple:
Ibid., 161.

215
“the great, joyous”:
Ibid.

215
Like Shakespeare:
Ibid., 163.

216
“glorious enough”:
Ibid., 160.

216
“painted with dry eyes”:
Ibid.

216
“driest imitation”:
Ibid., 165.

216
that passion for the outward:
Ibid., 167.

217
I gazed until all surrounding:
Ibid., 152.