DUKE OF MORNY – AN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA, excerpt from the Memoirs of the Duke of Morny, 1856
DUKE OF MORNY – AN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA, excerpt from the Memoirs of the Duke of Morny, 1856
    DUKE OF MORNY
    AN EMBASSY IN RUSSIA, excerpt from the Memoirs of the Duke of Morny, 1856
Édition :
    Paris
Date :
    1892
    octavo, paperback, untrimmed, (faded cover), fresh interior, XII-244 p.
    “The embassy of Count de Morny to Russia from August 1856 to June 1857 is a singular episode in the life of Louis-Napoleon’s half-brother, but also in the diplomatic history of the Second Empire. It must be said that nothing Morny did could leave anyone indifferent, for his mission to Tsar Alexander II gave rise to diametrically opposed interpretations. At the time, contemporaries were mostly critical, particularly at the Quai d’Orsay, where the most severe opinions were expressed, as we shall see, but also sometimes at the Tuileries. Later, however, some historians rehabilitated this embassy to the point of making the statesman a kind of misunderstood prophet.” (Yves Bruley, Morny and the Invention of Deauville, p. 267).

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