The Empress Eugénie by Alfred Leroy
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Eugénie de Montijo (1826 – 1920), was the last Empress consort of the French, from 1853 to 1871, as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of the French. She first met Prince Louis Napoléon, after that he had become president of the Second Republic, in 1849. Napoleon III, after having become emperor, married her in 1853. Eugénie was blamed for the fiasco of the French intervention in Mexico and the death of Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, and tried unsuccessfully to induce the Académie française to elect the writer George Sand as its first female member. When the Second Empire was overthrown after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, the empress and her husband took permanent refuge in England. After his death in 1873, and that of her son in 1879, she lived in retirement, abstaining from politics. On the outbreak of World War I, she donated her steam yacht to the British Navy, funded a military hospital as well as making large donations to French hospitals. In 1919 she was awarded a GBE, for her wartime contribution. The former empress died in 1920, aged 94. Eugénie lived long enough to see the collapse of other European monarchies after World War I, e. g. Russia, Germany and Austria-Hungary.Heron Books, London, in the serie Women Who Made History, 1969. Hardback. Publisher's olive faux leather, gilt and white titles, rule, and designs on the spines and front boards, gold-painted green endpapers, and gold ribbon markers. 402 pp. Lavishly illustrated.
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