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EUGENIE See also:MARIE-EUGENIE-IGNACE-See also:AUGUSTINE DE MONTIJOj (1826— ), wife of See also:Napoleon III., See also:emperor of the See also:French, daughter of See also:Don Cipriano Guzman y See also:Porto Carrero, See also:count of Teba, subsequently count of Montijo and See also:grandee of See also:Spain, was See also:born at See also:Grenada on the 5th of May 1826. Her See also:mother was a daughter of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Kirkpatrick, See also:United States See also:consul at See also:Malaga, a Scotsman by See also:birth and an See also:American by See also:nationality. Her childhood was spent in See also:Madrid, but after 1834 she lived with her mother and See also:sister chiefly in See also:Paris, where she was educated, like so many French girls of See also:good See also:family, in the See also:convent of the Sacre Cceur. When See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis Napoleon became See also:president of the See also:Republic she appeared frequently with her mother at the balls given by the See also:prince president at the Elysee, and it was here that she made the acquaintance of her future See also:husband. In See also:November 1852 mother and daughter were invited to See also:Fontainebleau, and in the picturesque See also:hunting parties the beautiful See also:young Spaniard, who showed herself an See also:expert horsewoman, was greatly admired by all See also:present and by the See also:host in particular. Three See also:weeks later, on the and of See also:December, the See also:Empire was formally proclaimed, and during a See also:series of fetes at See also:Compiegne, which lasted eleven days (rgth to 3oth December), the emperor became more and more fascinated. On New See also:Year's See also:Eve, at a See also:ball at the Tuileries, Mdlle de Montijo, who had necessarily excited much See also:jealousy and hostility in the See also:female See also:world, had See also:reason to complain that she had been insulted by the wife of an See also:official personage. On See also:hearing of it the emperor said to her, " Je See also:vous vengerai "; and within three days he made a formal proposal of See also:marriage. In a speech from the See also:throne on the 22nd of See also:January he formally announced his engagement, and justified what some See also:people considered a mesalliance. " I have preferred, he said, ; " a woman whom I love and respect to a woman unknown to me, with whom an See also:alliance would have had advantages mixed with sacrifices." Of her whom he had chosen he ventured to make a prediction: " Endowed with all the qualities of the soul, she will be the See also:ornament of the throne, and in the See also:day of danger she will become one of its courageous supports." The marriage was celebrated with See also:great pomp at Notre See also:Dame on the 3oth of January 1853. On the 16th of See also:March 1856 the empress gave birth to a son, who received the See also:title of Prince Imperial. ' The emperor's prediction regarding her was not belied by events. By herbeauty, elegance and See also:charm of manner she ddntributed largely to the brilliancy of the imperial regime, and when the end came, she was, as the official Enquete made by her enemies proved, one of the very few who showed calmness and courage in See also:face of the rising See also:tide of revolution. The empress acted three times as See also:regent during the See also:absence of the emperor,---in 1859, 1865 and 1870,—and she was generally consulted on important questions. When the emperor vacillated between two lines of policy she generally urged on him the bolder course; she deprecated everything tending to diminish the temporal See also:power of the papacy, and she disapproved of the emperor's liberal policy at the See also:close of his reign. On the collapse of the Empire she fled to See also:England, and settled with the emperor and her son at See also:Chislehurst: After the emperor's See also:death she removed to See also:Farnborough, where she built a See also:mausoleum to his memory. In 18'79 her son was killed in the Zulu See also:War, and in the following year she visited the spot and brought back the See also:body to be interred beside that of his See also:father. At Farnborough; and in a See also:villa she built at Cap See also:- MARTIN (Martinus)
- MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
- MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
- MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
- MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
- MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
- MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
- MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
- MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
- MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
- MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)
Martin on the See also:Riviera, she continued to live in retirement, following closely the course of events, but abstaining from all interference in French politics.
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