My Memoirs. Marguerite Steinheil

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Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I CHILDHOOD

       CHAPTER II YOUTH—MY FATHER'S DEATH—MY MARRIAGE

       CHAPTER III ARRIVAL IN PARIS. A SEPARATION. MARTHE. PARISIAN LIFE.

       CHAPTER IV MY SALON

       CHAPTER V MY SALON (continued)

       CHAPTER VI FÉLIX FAURE

       CHAPTER VII THE DREYFUS AFFAIR—FASHODA

       CHAPTER VIII THE MYSTERIOUS PEARL NECKLACE—THE DEATH OF FÉLIX FAURE

       CHAPTER IX AFTER PRESIDENT FAURE'S DEATH: THE DOCUMENTS—THE NECKLACE

       CHAPTER X 1899-1908

       CHAPTER XI EVENTS THAT PRECEDED THE CRIME

       CHAPTER XII MAY 1908

       CHAPTER XIII THE FATAL NIGHT

       CHAPTER XIV AFTER THE MURDER

       CHAPTER XV THE BLACK GOWNS

       CHAPTER XVI INVESTIGATIONS

       CHAPTER XVII THE THRONE-ROOM

       CHAPTER XVIII M. CHARLES SAUERWEIN AND THE ROSSIGNOL AFFAIR

       CHAPTER XIX THE PEARL IN THE POCKET-BOOK

       CHAPTER XX THE SO-CALLED "NIGHT OF THE CONFESSION" (NOVEMBER 25-26, 1908)

       CHAPTER XXI MY ARREST

       CHAPTER XXII THE THREE CELLS

       CHAPTER XXIII ALBA GHIRELLI, MARGUERITE ROSSELLI AND THE "MATIN"

       CHAPTER XXIV SAINT-LAZARE

       CHAPTER XXV. THE "INSTRUCTION"

       CHAPTER XXVI THE LAST "INSTRUCTION"

       CHAPTER XXVII THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE DAYS IN PRISON

       CHAPTER XXVIII THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-THREE DAYS IN PRISON (continued)

       CHAPTER XXIX THE TRIAL

       CHAPTER XXX THE SPEECH FOR THE PROSECUTION—THE SPEECH FOR THE DEFENCE

       CHAPTER XXXI AFTER THE VERDICT

       CHAPTER XXXII CONCLUSION

       INDEX

CHAPTER I

       CHILDHOOD

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      ("Monsieur et Madame Edouard Japy have the honour to inform you of the birth of a daughter." Beaucourt, April, 16th, 1869.)

      BEAUCOURT is a village in the "Belfort Territory," not far from the Swiss and German frontiers. It was in that village, at the "Château Edouard"—all large mansions in that region are called "châteaux," and the name of the owner is added to the word—that I was born some forty years ago.

      Beaucourt and nearly all of the surrounding country belongs to, or is dependent upon, the Japy family, whose vast factories and mills give a living to thousands of workmen.

      After a family quarrel, my father, Edouard Japy, had severed his connection with "Japy Bros." some time before my birth. Having resigned his directorship of the Company, he busied himself exclusively with his huge estate, devoting his days to the farm and woods, to his beloved park and the picturesque cascades which he had designed himself, to his flowers and orchards, to his family and to music.

      My mother was the daughter СКАЧАТЬ