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Eugénie: The Empress and her Empire

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Eugénie: The Empress and her Empire

From 1853 to 1870 EugÃ©nie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. The last woman to reign over France (and the only one to reign over the Paris we know today), she personifies the allure glimpsed in Winterhalterâ€™s portraits and the music of Jacques Offenbach. â€˜Eighteen years of self-indulgence, folly and wild gaiety, of love affairs and unbelievable eleganceâ€™, a survivor wistfully recalled. â€˜For a short time, too short a time, it seemed as if we were glittering ghosts from the splendours of the eighteenth century.â€™ In many ways the Second Empire was a final flicker of the ancien regime.

â€˜Successfully persuades us that any history of the nineteenth century which ignores her impact is hardly worth reading.â€™
Literary Review

â€˜A brilliantly told biography that resurrects EugÃ©nie and her Empire in all its shimmering glitziness.â€™
Daily Mail

â€˜This is revisionist history at its best.â€™
Andrew Roberts

Country	USA
Author	Desmond Seward
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Thistle Publishing
Manufacturer	Thistle Publishing
NumberOfPages	374
PublicationDate	2013-07-08
Publisher	Thistle Publishing
ReleaseDate	2013-07-08
Studio	Thistle Publishing

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