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Eugénie de Montijo was the Empress of the French by marriage to Napoleon III from 1853 to 1870. She was a Spanish noblewoman, a Bonapartist supporter, and the mother of the Prince Imperial.
19 lip 1998 · Eugénie was the wife of Napoleon III and empress of France (1853–70), who came to have an important influence on her husband’s foreign policy. The daughter of a Spanish noble who fought on the French side during Napoleon I’s Peninsular War in Spain, Eugénie went to Paris when Louis-Napoléon became.
Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920) was the youngest daughter of the Count of Teba and niece of the Count of Montijo, whose name her father obtained and by which she is improperly known today. After her marriage to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, she became Empress of the French until 1873.
In 1853, Eugénie de Montijo, a Spanish noblewoman of partially Scottish descent, married Napoleon III, emperor of France; for the next 17 years, she reigned as empress of that glittering epoch in French history known as the "Circus Empire."
Eugenie, Empress of the French. Eugenie was qualified as “an ornament of the throne” in the speech that Napoleon III gave to the organs of government. He expected his wife to be “Catholic and pious” and “graceful and good, [thereby restoring] the virtues of the Empress Josephine.”
A biography of Eugenie de Montijo, the wife of Napoleon III and the empress of France from 1853 to 1870. Learn how she influenced her husband's policy, impressed Bismarck and Queen Victoria, and shaped the history of Europe and America.
Winterhalter began an official portrait of Empress Eugénie (Eugénie de Montijo, Condesa de Teba, 1826-1920) shortly after her marriage in 1853 to Napoleon III, emperor of France, but it was not exhibited until 1855.
