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as nz of an impatient disposition I made my avpearance 149) js. in this world some little time before I was expected, and by 5, i] my impetuosity imperilled my Mother's life as well as my own . The French nurse who was to provide me with my first repasts | dad not yet been summoned from her village , and my Mother i | @ing too ill to take her place, I almost perished from inan- |~- tion . Yet, somehow, I was made to survive until the nurse err ived VC Ss born on December: 17th, 7L6s9.0"0n Parichat number eral f [7 Rue Laffitte - my Grandfather's house - and in the same as that in which Napoleon III had first seen the lirht. After he had become Emperor ,Napoleon came to inspect the ‘ormer residence of Queen Hortense and was received with 9 much ceremony by my family. A magnificent hotel ‘entre cour et 1 + 4 4 , it communicated by a private door with the next house jardin that of my Grand-Uncle James, which in turn was connected in a Similar way with the offices of our Paris firm . After their arriace in 1825 my Parents intended makine Paris their home, but circumstances willed otherwise. My paternal Grandfather was ENE then living in Vienna and his elder brother Anselm lived in en nt A a ee shir Sn ne gna oi hn sPankrort. Anselm had no children , and requiring a strong hand { i i