UGENIA DE MONTIJO SEEN BY THE ROYALTY OF HER TIME. FROM ARRIVIST TO REVERED EMPRESS

Keywords: eugenia de montijo, napoleon bonaparte, empress

Abstract

On December 2, 1852, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, until then president of the Second French Republic, proclaimed the creation of the Second French Empire after a coup that months ago had strengthened the powers of the executive and diminished those of the legislative chambers. , thus generating a feeling of perplexity among the old European royalty, some of whose members still remembered the turbulent and turbulent years in which their uncle, the great Napoleon, had forever changed the map of Europe. That dynasty of parvenus, the Bonaparte, was once again playing strongly on the great European board and soon the whole of Paris of the influential and important was going to begin to speculate on the necessary marriage of the new emperor, who in his younger years He had expressed his desire to marry his cousin-sister, Princess Matilda, daughter of his old uncle Jerome Bonaparte, who decades ago had been fleeting King of Westphalia.

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Published
2020-12-15
How to Cite
Sáinz de Medrano, R. M. (2020). UGENIA DE MONTIJO SEEN BY THE ROYALTY OF HER TIME. FROM ARRIVIST TO REVERED EMPRESS. CUADERNOS DE INVESTIGACIÓN HISTÓRICA, (37), 87-114. https://doi.org/10.51743/cih.90