Excerpt from Memoirs of the Empress Eugenie, Vol. 2 At another time the Emperor said: The Czar Nicolas never suffered an occasion to escape to let us see his proud and haughty spirit. After the pin pricks came the real complications brought about by the disputes over the holy places of Palestine. He seized this opportunity to Show his audacity, when there was danger of our having complications at home. Since France had obtained from Turkey what we much valued, viz. The right to protect the priests and monks of Jerusalem, Russia sought to secure by way of compensation, a similar right for the schismatic Greeks, that is to say, for over half of the subjects ofithe Ottoman Empire! This was stir ring up the Eastern Question with a vengeance! This was something more than a mere matter of etiquette, and it caused a great sensation through out Europe. We in Paris called a special cabinet meeting to consider what was to be done. I fa vored sending a'fieet to Salamis there to await the turn events took. On this same occasion we drew up the grand lines of the speech which the minister of foreign affairs, M. Drouyn de Lhuys, was to pro nounce before the Legislative Body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.