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New-Year's Day, 1867 -- The Luxembourg Question -- Disputes Between France and Prussia -- Arbitration -- The Alarm Blows Over -- We Visit Paris -- Plan of Napoleon III For General Disarmament -- Frederick's Efforts in the Cause of Peace -- "The Protocol of Peace" -- A Little Daughter Is Born to Us -- Renewed Happiness -- Frederick's Studies -- M Desmoulin's Proposals -- Return to Paris, and Reentry Into the Gay World -- Talk of the "Revanche de Sadowa" -- Pressure of the War Party on Napoleon III -- Whirl of Gaiety -- We Seek Repose in Switzerland -- Illness of My Little Daughter -- Return to Paris in March, 1870 -- Napoleon III Drops His Plan of Disarmament Under the Pressure of the War Party -- Still Peace Seems Assured.
The New Year, '67! We kept the Sylvester Night quite alone, my Frederick and I. When it struck twelve --