Cuadernos de Investigación Histórica arises from the "Cisneros" History Seminar of the Fundación Universitaria Española. It has an annual periodicity and its objective is the research, study and dissemination of various themes of Universal History and the History of Spain. The usual language of expression is Spanish, and it is aimed mainly at researchers of spanish history.
No. 37 (2020): Empress Eugenia de Montijo: 100 years since the death of a universal Spanish woman
We wanted to dedicate this volume to the memory of Doña Eugenia de Portocarrero Palafox y Kirkpatrick (1826 - 1920), popularly known as Eugenia de Montijo, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of this illustrious Spanish woman who became Empress of France, after her marriage to Napoleon III (1808 - 1873). Empress consort, therefore, but also three times direct regent of the destinies of the Gallic nation and of all its overseas possessions, at critical moments for the homeland of her contemporaries Victor Hugo or Stendhal, and decisive for the configuration of Europe, during the time of the Second French Empire (1852 -1870).