The Empress Eugénie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire
by
Nancy Nichols Barker
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III and one of the most beautiful women ever to grace a throne, was the victim of her own inconstant mind. A daughter of an aristocratic Spanish family, she had a natural reverence for legitimate monarchy; yet her high-spirited temperament and chivalric outlook...