28/51 After the first defeats he sought to open negotiations, but then it was too late. Prince Napoleon went to Florence and arrived there on August 20; but his utmost efforts failed to move the Italian Cabinet from neutrality. (Paris, 1903); also _Histoire Contemporaine_ (_i.e._ of France in 1869-1875), by M.Samuel Denis, 4 vols. The Empress Eugenie once said that she was "deux fois Catholique," as a Spaniard and as French Empress. (Sir M.K.Grant Duff, _Notes from a Diary, 1851-1872_, vol.i.p. |