Author’s Note
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Author’s NoteThe descriptions of Paris in 1867, the year of the International Exhibition, are all accurate, as are the references to the restaurants, the Intellectuals and Prince Napoleon.
Lavish production was a feature of the contemporary theatre and Cinderella at Le Théâtre du Châtelet with its five acts and thirty scenes was as described in this novel.
Czar Nicholas I, severe, vindictive and mean, was undoubtedly the most alarming sovereign in Europe.
In 1841 Queen Victoria wrote,
“He is certainly a very striking man, still very handsome, his profile beautiful but the expression in the eyes is formidable and unlike anything I ever saw before. His mind is an uncivilised one.”
Czar Alexander sent a secret Ukaze to the Senate whereby the children of his mistress, Princess Catherine Dolgoruky, were given the name and rank of Prince and Princess.
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