The shadow emperor: a biography of Napoléon III

Prince Louis Napoléon --

A son and his father --

Auguste de Morny --

Gentlemanly pursuits --

Return to Arenenberg --

Romance and ructions --

What hath God wrought --

Farewells and asylum --

"This grand and glorious undertaking": Boulogne or bust --

Funeral for an emperor --

To Ham, with love, tosh, and toil --

Marking time --

A pure new Holy Republic, 1848 --

President of the Republic Bonaparte --

The Élysée --

Countdown to empire --

The Rubicon file --

The sphinx of the Tuileries --

Violets and wedding bells --

Birth of an empire --

Georges Haussmann --

Prefect of Paris --

Crosses, candlesticks, and swords: the Crimea --

A very special relationship --

A child of France --

An Italian opera --

Return of a carbonaro: Italy, 1859 --

Four seasons --

Inquisition at Baden: 1860 --

Offenbachland --

Fields of empire --

An arab kingdom --

Bismarck: war watch --

Ebb tide --

Count Bismarck's war: 1870 --

To Berlin! --

"Were you at Sedan, Henri?" --

Elegy for an emperor --

Afterword.