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Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales (5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo (French: [øʒeni də mɔ̃tiʁo]), was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853
Eugénie de Montijo (1826-1920) was the youngest daughter of the Count of Teba and niece of the Count of Montijo, whose name her father obtained and by which she is improperly known today. After her marriage to Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, she became Empress of the French until 1873.
María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19e comtesse de Teba — dite Eugénie de Montijo — née le 5 mai 1826 à Grenade ( Espagne) et morte le 11 juillet 1920 à Madrid ( Espagne ), est l'épouse de Napoléon III, empereur des Français. À ce titre, elle porte le titre d' impératrice des Français du 29 janvier 1853 au 4 septembre 1870 .
On May 5, 1826, she entered the world as the daughter of the Spanish aristocrats Count Cipriano and Countess Maria of Montijo. But although Mom and Dad were mega rich, the people utterly despised them.
In 1853, Eugénie de Montijo, a Spanish noblewoman of partially Scottish descent, married Napoleon III, emperor of France; for the next 17 years, she reigned as empress of that glittering epoch in French history known as the "Circus Empire."
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Agustina de Palafox y Kirkpatrick, 19th Countess of Teba, 16th Marquise of Ardales, known as Eugénie de Montijo, was Empress of the French from her marriage to Napoleon III on 30 January 1853 until the Emperor was overthrown on 4 September 1870.
Sep 18, 2013 · Born into Spanish nobility, Eugénie de Montijo first met 'prince-president' Louis-Napoleon at the Élysée Palace on 12 April, 1849. Four years and a coup d'état later, on 22 January 1853, the...
