Alsace-Lorraine: severance of, from France anticipated by Prussian
officers.
Andernach: ruins of palace of Kings of Austrasia, church containing embalmed body of Emperor Valentinian; crossing of Rhine by Julius Caesar at.
Angouleme, Duchesse d’: temperament and religious fanaticism of.
Antwerp: English families fly from Brussels to.
Archenholz: historian of the Seven Years’ War.
Army of the Loire: exemplary conduct of, when disbanded.
Arona: colossal statue of St Charles Borromeus at.
Austria: fluctuations in the value of the paper currency of
Napoleon’s policy as regarded.
Avernus, Lake.
Baciocchi, Princess Elise: sister of Napoleon
and Sovereign of Lucca.
Baffo, Venetian poet.
Baiae: baths of Nero, ruins of temples; the
Styx;
Elysian Fields.
Belgium: dislike to severance from France;
feeling towards Holland; attachment to Napoleon;
preparations for the Campaign; all inhabitants requisitioned
for the repair of fortifications.
Berlin: occupation of, after Jena, excellent
conduct of French troops of occupation; excesses
committed by troops of Rhenish Confederation; insolent
conduct of troops raised by Prince of Isenburg; art
treasures of, respected by French Republican Armies;
Unter den Linden;
Brandenburger Thor; public buildings; streets;
statues of great men in the Wilhelm Platz;
Churches; the officers of the Army; anecdote
of Blucher.
Bern: attempts in 1815 to regain possession of
the Canton de Vaud.
Bigottini: fine performance at the Grand Opera,
Paris.
Bingen: Mausethurm,
Bishop Hatto.
Blacas, Vicomte de: at Court of Louis XVIII at
Ghent.
Blucher: popularity of, in London, encourages
the excesses of his soldiery; nicknames of; narrowly
escapes capture at Ligny; saves English at Hougoumont;
anecdote related of.
Bohemia: dialect of.
Bologna: arcades, remarkable picture in gallery
of Count Marescalchi; leaning tower; lady-professor
of Greek;
Carbonari; theatre; women; barbarous dialect.
Bonn:
Electoral palace;
Roman antiquity; legends of the Sieben Gebirge;
Das Heimliche Gericht.
Bordas, M, politics of.
Borgo San Donino, remarkable highway robbery at.
Borromean Islands, splendid villa in Isola Bella.
Bourbons, the: want of patriotism of the Duc
de Berri, their injudicious conduct;
Louis XVIII and Monsieur at Ghent; amusing
nickname of Louis XVIII; dislike of the French people
to; their atrocious policy; send emissaries to
South of France from Coblentz; unpopularity of;
fulsome adulation of; cause removal of Sismondi
from Geneva; character of royal families of France,
Spain, and Naples.
Brussels: description of, historical associations;
Place du Sablon, celebrated fountain; theatres;
humanity of inhabitants of, to the wounded after Waterloo.