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Empire style (à l'Empire): the neoclassical fashion of Napoleon I's First Empire (1804–1814), characterized by high waists directly under the bosom, low necklines, long sleeves, and light fabrics with minimal understructure. ↩
Louise de La Vallière (1644–1710), mistress of Louis XIV. ↩
The Duc de Nemours (1814–1896) was a son of King Louis-Philippe. His son Gaston d'Orléans, comte d'Eu, had married Isabel, heiress to the throne of Brazil: hence Marie's «future impératrice». ↩
Gounod's Faust (1859) was the most frequently performed opera at the Paris Opéra in this period. ↩