icklen (Library of the Society of
Californian Pioneers); Mrs. Annette Tyree (New York); Mr. John
Stapleton Cowley-Brown (New York); Mr. Lewis Chase (Hendersonville);
Professor Kenneth L. Daughrity (Delta State Teachers' College,
Cleveland); Mr. Frank Fenton (Stanford University, California); Mr.
Harold E. Gillingham (Librarian, Historical Society of Pennsylvania);
Mr. W. Sprague Holden (Associate-Editor, Argonaut Publishing Company,
San Francisco); and Mr. Milton Lord (Director, Public Library,
Boston).

In addition to these experts, I am also indebted to Monsieur Pierre
Tugal (Conservateur, Archives de la Danse, Paris); and to the
directors and staffs of the Bibliotheque d'Arsenal, Paris, and of the
Theatrical Museum, Munich, who have generously placed their records at
my disposal.

Unlike his American and Continental colleagues, a public librarian in
England said (on a postcard) that he was "too busy to answer
questions."

H. W.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

CHAPTER

I. PRELUDE TO ADVENTURE

II. "MARRIED IN HASTE"

III. THE CONSISTORY COURT

IV. FLARE OF THE FOOTLIGHTS

V. A PASSIONATE PILGRIMAGE

VI. AN "AFFAIR OF HONOUR"

VII. "HOOKING A PRINCE"

VIII. LUDWIG THE LOVER

IX. "MAITRESSE DU ROI"

X. BURSTING OF THE STORM

XI. A FALLEN STAR

XII. A "LEFT-HANDED" MARRIAGE

XIII. ODYSSEY

XIV. THE "GOLDEN WEST"

XV. "DOWN UNDER"

XVI. FAREWELL TO THE FOOTLIGHTS

XVII. THE CURTAIN FALLS

APPENDIX I. "ARTS OF BEAUTY"

APPENDIX II. "LOLA MONTEZ' LECTURES"

INDEX

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

LOLA MONTEZ, COUNTESS OF LANDSFELD _Frontispiece_

"JOHN COMPANY" TROOPS ON THE MARCH IN INDIA

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE, HAYMARKET, WHERE LOLA MONTEZ MADE HER DEBUT

BENJAMIN LUMLEY, LESSEE OF HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

LOLA MONTEZ, "SPANISH DANCER." DEBUT AT HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE

VISCOUNT RANELAGH, WHO ORGANISED A CABAL AGAINST LOLA MONTEZ

ABBE LISZT, MUSICIAN AND LOVER

FANNY ELSSLER, PREDECESSOR OF LOLA MONTEZ IN PARIS

PORTE ST. MARTIN THEATRE, PARIS, WHERE LOLA WAS A "FLOP"

SUPPER-PARTY AT LES FRERES PROVENCAUX. FIRST ACT IN A TRAGEDY

RESIDENZ PALACE, MUNICH, IN 1848. RESIDENCE OF LUDWIG I.

"COMMAND" PORTRAIT. IN THE "GALLERY OF BEAUTIES," MUNICH

KING OF BAVARIA. "LUDWIG THE LOVER"

LOLA