WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.910 Hi. I'm Jesse Alexander and thank you for 00:00:02.910 --> 00:00:06.360 supporting this companion episode of Glory and Defeat. 00:00:06.360 --> 00:00:08.475 In this week's regular episode, 00:00:08.475 --> 00:00:11.700 we talked about the wild escape of Empress Eugenie. WEBVTT 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:17.250 Let's take a look at the man who ends up saving her sumptuous personal effects. 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:20.610 Maurice D'irisson Comte D'Herisson was WEBVTT 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:48.780 Four large mannequins of the exact size and build of 00:01:48.780 --> 00:01:52.800 her majesty stood in the room above the bedroom. WEBVTT 00:01:52.800 --> 00:01:55.280 When the lady-in-waiting in the bedroom had given 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:57.785 the necessary orders through a megaphone 00:01:57.785 --> 00:01:59.720 the women above dressed one of 00:01:59.720 --> 00:02:04.135 the mannequins which was lowered to the bedroom via the lift. WEBVTT 00:02:04.135 --> 00:02:09.210 The Empress could say to herself," This is how I shall look later on." 00:02:09.210 --> 00:02:14.160 The mannequin would go back up to the second floor naked. WEBVTT 00:02:14.960 --> 00:02:21.120 D'Herisson packed 3-4 million francs worth of Eugenie's possessions. WEBVTT 00:02:21.120 --> 00:02:25.300 But the former empress could not afford to pay the shipping. 00:02:25.300 --> 00:02:29.555 Despite his criticisms, the monarchist D'Herisson advanced 00:02:29.555 --> 00:02:35.110 the money and sent along the 23 boxes in November 1870. WEBVTT 00:02:35.110 --> 00:02:39.695 D'Herisson later fought in the battles around Paris and personally 00:02:39.695 --> 00:02:44.510 executed Communal during the Commune in May 1871. WEBVTT 00:02:44.510 --> 00:02:47.695 He died in 1893. 00:02:47.695 --> 00:02:53.680 Thanks again for supporting Glory and Defeat and I'll see you next week. WEBVTT 00:00:20.610 --> 00:00:24.975 a 30-year-old mobile guard reserve officer when war broke out. 00:00:24.975 --> 00:00:28.620 He was in Washington on government business but rushed back to 00:00:28.620 --> 00:00:32.465 France only to find he'd missed the major battles. WEBVTT 00:00:32.465 --> 00:00:34.250 Now a staff officer, 00:00:34.250 --> 00:00:37.610 he received orders to protect the ex imperial couples 00:00:37.610 --> 00:00:41.540 belongings from the revolutionaries and send them to England. WEBVTT 00:00:41.540 --> 00:00:45.710 When he entered Eugenie's chambers in the treasury palace on September 5th, 00:00:45.710 --> 00:00:49.735 he could hardly believe the decadent luxury. 00:00:49.735 --> 00:00:53.000 D'Herisson was no revolutionary but he was WEBVTT 00:00:53.000 --> 00:00:58.340 disgusted by what he saw as nouveau riche excess. 00:00:58.340 --> 00:01:04.190 The whole place was furnished with the refinement of modern luxury. WEBVTT 00:01:04.190 --> 00:01:06.895 This luxury seemed out of place. 00:01:06.895 --> 00:01:11.435 However, this luxury was without character and devoid of style. WEBVTT 00:01:11.435 --> 00:01:14.750 It clashed with the respect one should have for 00:01:14.750 --> 00:01:18.565 the idea one usually has of sovereign grandeur. 00:01:18.565 --> 00:01:25.455 In a word, it smelled too much like a boudoir and not enough like a palace. WEBVTT 00:01:25.455 --> 00:01:28.035 Cela sentait trop le boudoir, 00:01:28.035 --> 00:01:31.090 et pas assez le palais. WEBVTT 00:01:31.910 --> 00:01:35.325 The cont counted 50 parasols, 00:01:35.325 --> 00:01:43.890 600,000 francs worth of furs and he noticed a special device for dressing the ex Empress.