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This is a personal photo album of one of the Prince Imperial’s companions-in-arms in South Africa. He accompanied the Empress Eugenie in 1880 during her pilgrimage to Zululand where he took photographs of the memorial at the site of the attack on 1 June 1879.

• Paris
• Société des publications littéraires illustrés
• [1909]
• vol. I

This interesting literary hoax, was published two decades after the death of Napoleon III. It is written by a “close friend of the Emperor” in fictionalised form, reproducing the main facts of the reign as they were popularised at the end of the nineteenth century in the Bonapartist circles.

[English translation here https://archive.org/details/intimatememoirso01ambiala]

• Paris
• Société des publications littéraires illustrés
• [1909]
• vol. II

Intéressante mystification littéraire publiée deux décennies après la mort de Napoléon III qui, sous les traits d’un familier de l’empereur et par une forme romancée, reprend les principaux faits du règne tels qu’ils étaient vulgarisés en cette fin du XIXe siècle par le courant bonapartiste.

Recueillis et annotés par Charles Simond et M.C. Poinsot.

Illustrations de Roth d’après des documents de l’époque.

• Paris
• Ernest Flammarion
• [189?]

D’après des peintures, gravures, photographies, objets du temps …

• Paris
• Dentu
• 1871

In addition to the Correspondence of the Imperial Family, published in 1870 after the fall of the Empire, Charles Vieu, known as Robert Halt (1828-1896), a member of the Imperial Papers Committee, had these miscellaneous papers published. Essentially letters, they were collected from among the 60,000 items recovered from the fire at the Tuileries Palace.