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Eugénie, Marie Ignace Augustine de Montijo
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Eugénie, Marie Ignace Augustine De Montijo
Empress of France, daughter of the Spanish count of Montijo. In 1853 she married Louis Napoleon, who had become emperor as Napoleon III.
She encouraged court extravagance and Napoleon III's intervention in Mexico, and urged him to fight the Prussians. After his surrender to the Germans at Sedan, northeastern France, in 1870, she fled to England.
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