Lord Lyons: A Record of British Diplomacy, Vol. 2 of 2

The sudden and unexpected declaration in September of the Union of Bulgaria and Eastern Roumelia which caused so much perturbation in Europe, and resulted in a war between Servi...

In January, 1876, the gradual spread of the insurrection in Turkey led to the concoction by the three Imperial Powers of the so-called 'Andrassy Note,' and the great question wa...

The first day of 1883 was signalized by the announcement of the death of Gambetta, and those who were present at the Elysée on the occasion of President Grévy's New Year's Day r...

The new French Government had been received with great favour by the upper classes, while the remainder of the population remained indifferent, but the Marshal was credited with...

The event in 1878 which aroused more interest in France than the Berlin Congress or anything else, was the holding of the great Exhibition in Paris, which not only demonstrated...

The General Election in England which took place in March, 1880, resulted not only in the rout of the Conservative Party, but in the reversal of the Foreign Policy of Lord Beaco...

In September, 1881, the long-drawn-out Egyptian crisis culminated in the military _coup d'état_ of Arabi and the colonels, which resulted in the dismissal of the Ministry and th...

Strictly speaking, the existence of the National Assembly which had been summoned to ratify the Preliminaries of Peace, had now[1] come to an end, but under prevailing circumsta...

and payment of indemnity, ii. 3; colonial policy, ii. 60; and French colonial schemes, ii. 244-5, 251, 259, 264, 268, 342; and Russia, i. 338; and Russo-Turkish War, ii. 109; Su...

and the political crisis, i. 282, 284; on Napoleon III., i. 221, ii. 36; interview with Lyons, i. 311; mission to the Powers, i. 315, 317, 335; on causes of the war, i. 316; int...

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Lord Rosebery at the Foreign Office--His surprise at ill-feeling shown by French Government--Proceedings of General Boulanger--Princes' Exclusion Bill--Boulanger at the Review o...

The Powers and Turkey: England and the Andrassy Note--Gambetta on French Politics--Simplicity of Marshal MacMahon--Political consequences of French military re-organisation--Str...

Change of Government in England and reversal of Foreign Policy--The French Embassy in London: Freycinet's model Ambassador--Personal characteristics of Lord Lyons: _On ne lui co...

Death of Gambetta--General discontent in France--Change of Government: Jules Ferry Prime Minister--Waddington appointed Ambassador in London--Insult to King of Spain in Paris--G...

Egypt: the _coup d'état_ of the Colonels: joint Anglo-French action--Gambetta as Prime Minister--His desire to remain on good terms with England--Egypt: the Dual Note--Gambetta...

Paris Exhibition of 1878: desire of Queen Victoria to visit it incognito--Tunis--Resignation of MacMahon: Election of Grévy--Waddington Prime Minister: his difficulties--Anglo-F...

Thiers as Chief of the Executive--Negotiations respecting a new Anglo-French Commercial Treaty--Return of the Princes--Embarrassment caused by the Comte de Chambord--Question of...

MacMahon as President of the Republic--Franco-German relations--Bismarck's confidences to Lord Odo Russell--Political confusion in France--The war scare of 1875--Rumoured intent...