Empress Eugenie Thesis

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Shelby Granada 12/22/15 Empress Eugenie Eugenie Conntesse de Teba was born on May 5th 1826 in a small village in Spain called Granada. Eugenie was the daughter of a Spanish noble, who fought on the French side in Napoleons Peninsular war in Spain. Eugenie married Emperor Napoleon the III in January of 1853 and become the last Empress of the French. Empress Eugenie was a gorgeous woman who was number one in French society in 1870. In 1854 the Emperor Napoleon III and his wife Eugenie bought several acres of dunes in Biarritz. Napolean chose this location near Spain so that his wife would not get homesick, they gave the engineer Dagueret the task of establishing a summer home surrounded by gardens, woods meadows, a pond and a building for them to enjoy. The house, known today as Hotel du Paiais, was called Villa Eugenie. Their presence at the home attracted other European royalty like the British monarchs, Queen Victoria and the Spanish king of Alfonzo XIII. It also made Biarritz become very well known. On March 16th, 1856 Eugenie gave birth to a son, Napoleon-Eugene-Louis Bonaparte, the imperial heir. Eugenie was so concerned about her family that she started taking an active role in political affairs and became much more than just a figurehead for her husband. She served as a regent, …show more content…

The empress was a leader of the world of dress. She swept away many people on with her fashion statements. In Paris every lady would walk and hold her head like the empress. Everything about Eugenie was imitated; her tint in her hair, her glance of her eyes and even the motion of her figure. In 1857 she became to have a liking to artificial flowers and everyone in Paris followed along. People even copied the empress’s hair; her corkscrew curls. The most popular of all was Eugenie’s crinolines which lasted a decade. Empress Eugenie spent 60,034,000 total francs on all of her clothing for balls in

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