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Empress Eugénie of France (1826–1920)

Auteur van Kejsarinnan Eugenies memoarer ( I och II)

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Gangbare naam
Empress Eugénie of France
Officiële naam
Franzosen, Eugénie Kaiserin der (Ehename)
Montijo, Eugénie de (Geburtsname)
Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
Franzosen, Kaiserin Eugénie der
Geboortedatum
1826-05-05
Overlijdensdatum
1920-07-11
Graflocatie
St. Michael's Abbey, Farnborough, England
Geslacht
female
Nationaliteit
Spanien (gebürtig)
Frankreich (Heirat)
Land (voor op de kaart)
Spain
Geboorteplaats
Granada, Spain
Plaats van overlijden
Madrid, Spain
Woonplaatsen
Paris, France
Opleiding
convent school
Beroepen
empress
memoirist
Relaties
Napoleon III. (Ehemann)
Organisaties
Haus Bonaparte
Korte biografie
Empress Eugénie was born in Granada, the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who had fought on the French side during the Napoleonic Wars. She was educated by governesses and at a convent school in Paris. There she met Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of the Second Republic. They married in 1853 after he had seized power as Emperor Napoleon III.
She played an active role in political affairs, supporting Papal causes and opposing a Prussian candidate for the vacant Spanish throne, a controversy that helped spark the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. After France lost the Battle of Sedan, she fled with her family to exile in England, where she lived on for many years, a grande dame of European monarchy.

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