Contents
Chapter Page I [The Youth of Eugénie] 11 II [Eugénie’s Marriage to Louis Napoleon] 23 III [Eugénie’s Personality] 36 IV [State Visit to England] 42 V [Birth of the Prince Imperial] 49 VI [The Empress in Politics] 54 VII [Private Life of the Empress] 62 VIII [Paris under the Second Empire] 68 IX [Eugénie as a Leader of Fashion] 79 X [Decline of the Empire] 88 XI [The War of 1870] 97 XII [Eugénie’s Flight to England] 109 XIII [The Empress in Exile] 119 XIV [Death of the Prince Imperial] 126 [Appendix] 136