EUGENIA DE MONTIJO AND THE FALL OF THE II FRENCH EMPIRE. THE THREE DEATHS OF AN EMPERESS
Abstract
Eugenia de Montijo is, in her centenary, a forgotten figure, a romantic image who, according to her opponents from Victor Hugo to Zola, participated in an operetta system or regime, the second French empire. The noble grenadine wanted to win the friendship of the French by promoting war on the Protestant Prussian. The latent and constant threat that hung over France. From 1856, the date on which the imperial heir was born, Euge-nia had a growing ascendancy in the politics of her new country. A few days after the Franco-German war broke out, Eugenia was named regent on July 27, on September 1 Napoleon III capitulated in Sedan. The two Napo-leons, prisoner of Bismarck abdicated. On the 4th the Third Republic was proclaimed, Gambetta fled Paris to Bordeaux to continue the resistance. Eugenia was exiled to England. The disaster would bring consequences of enormous dimensions not only to France but to all of Europe, in March the Commune and civil war broke out in Paris. Eugenia only looked at her son, Napoleon died of a gallbladder operation at the beginning of 1873, and a widow, in June 1879 the imperial prince died, it was the end of all hope for the former empress.
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