EUGENIE: THE EMPRESS AND HER EMPIRE

Book ID/图书代码： 00530014B76052

English Summary/英文概要： From 1853 to 1870 Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. The last woman to reign over France (and the only one to reign over the Paris we know today), she personifies the allure glimpsed in Winterhalter’s portraits and the music of Jacques Offenbach. ‘Eighteen years of self-indulgence, folly and wild gaiety, of love affairs and unbelievable elegance’, a survivor wistfully recalled. ‘For a short time, too short a time, it seemed as if we were glittering ghosts from the splendours of the eighteenth century.’ In many ways the Second Empire was a final flicker of the ancien regime.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从1853年到1870 年欧仁妮??德??蒙蒂若??可谓权倾一时的女人。身为法国的皇后，她同她的丈夫，拿破仑三世，被当时被称之为 ’巴黎唯一的男人’ 普鲁士首相俾斯麦印象深刻。这是这位风靡已久的传奇法国王后的第一部传记，德斯蒙德??西沃德再现她手中帝国中那些交错的政治和繁华的外交世界，对这位从格拉纳达（西班牙格拉纳达省会）的帐篷出生的女子在欧洲风雨动荡期间的惊人作为，重新作了评估。 (Sandy)

Awards/获奖情况："When a fortune teller told the teenage Eugenia de Montijo that he saw her waering a crown, she and her mother were sceptical...However, the clairvoyant was certain, and so it proved... If the man Eugenia wed, Napolean III, is today only half-remembered, overshadowed by his namesake uncle, then his Empress Eugenie is totally forgotten. But historian Desmond Seward has ridden gallently to the resuce in a brilliantly told bigraphy that resurects Eugenie and her Empire in all its shimmering glitziness.... Equally at home in the boudoir or on the battlefield, Seward tells Eugenie’s fantastic story with panache and authority. It’s the very book for those who like their history painted in vivid colours."Nigel Jones - Daily Mail

"Desmond Seward’s achievement is to show how much of Eugenie’s "black legend" is unfair... His biography is undeniably sympathetic to Eugenie, but it is elegantly written, clearly structured, and generally convincing... The final impression from this excellent biography is of a strong-willed and complex woman whose influence on 19th-century French politicas has been much neglected."Munro Price - Sunday Telegraph

"Successfully persuades us that any history of the nineteenth century which ignores her impact is hardly worth reading."Literary Review"this is revisionist history at its best."Andrew Roberts

"The perfect introduction to an appealing woman and the world she symbolises."Contemporary Review

"Personal enthusiasm for his subject, his thorough research and his beguilging style ensure that this is a delightful book."The Tablet

About the Author/作者介绍： Desmond Seward is best known for The Monks of War (1972), The Wars of the Roses (1995) – both republished by the Folio Society – and A Brief History of the Hundred Years War that has stayed in print in Britain and the United States since its publication in 1978. However, his own favourites among his books are Old Puglia: A Portrait of South Eastern Italy (with Susan Mountgarret, 2009) and Wings over the Desert (2009), an account of his father’s experiences as an RFC pilot in Palestine during the First World War. He was born in 1935 in Paris where his father was managing director of Timken Fran??ais, into a family of Anglo-Irish origin that had been wine-merchants at Bordeaux since the 1870s (a background that instilled a lasting love of France) and educated at Ampleforth and at St Catharine’s College, Cambridge as an Exhibitioner in History. Unfashionably, harking back to Gibbon and Macaulay, he believes that history is literature - that readability and accessibility are of vital importance.

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