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                           LUDWIG THE SECOND
                            KING OF BAVARIA


                                   BY
                             CLARA TSCHUDI

    AUTHOR OF "MARIE ANTOINETTE," "EUGÉNIE, EMPRESS OF THE FRENCH,"
               "MARIA SOPHIA, QUEEN OF NAPLES," ETC. ETC.

                     TRANSLATED FROM THE NORWEGIAN
                                   BY
                          ETHEL HARRIET HEARN



          "Certains caractères échappent à l'analyse logique."

                                                        George Sand.



                         WITH  PORTRAIT

                                 London
                      SWAN SONNENSCHEIN & CO. LIM.
                      NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & CO.
                                  1908







CONTENTS


CHAPTER                                                             PAGE

I.        Descent and Education                                        1
II.       Fundamental Traits of Ludwig's Character                    11
III.      "Le Roi est mort! Vive le Roi!"                             17
IV.       A Plan of Marriage                                          22
V.        King Ludwig and Richard Wagner                              25
VI.       Ludwig's First Visit to Switzerland--Richard Wagner
          leaves Munich                                               40
VII.      The Political Situation--The Schleswig-Holstein Question
          --The War of 1866                                           53
VIII.     The King makes the Tour of his Kingdom                      58
IX.       Ludwig's Betrothal                                          63
X.        The King goes to Paris--Disharmonies between the
          Engaged Couple--Ludwig meets the Emperor Napoleon and the
          Empress Eugénie in Augsburg--The King breaks his Promise
          of Marriage                                                 75
XI.       After the Parting with Sophie--Episodes from the King's
          Excursions in the Highlands                                 81