The Empress Eugenie in England - Art, Architecture, Collecting

-Told with exceptional scholarship, wit and humanity; the book itself is a ravishingly beautiful object- - World of Interiors -Geraghty excels in uncovering the allusions that added up to a patriotic statement about French culture-s ability to absorb and refine diverse European precedents- - Apollo -Beautifully illustrated book reconstructs what the house, collections and mausoleum were like before 1920- - Spectator This absorbing book tells the story of Empress Eug-e (1826-1920), the wife of Napoleon III and the last Empress-Consort of France. Today she is remembered for her physical beauty, for her influence as a taste maker and for her glittering contribution to the second imperial court - but she outlived the Second Empire by half a century and lived in exile in England. The Empress bought the Farnborough Hill estate in 1880, following a decade of personal tragedy: the collapse of the Second Empire (1852-70), the death of Napoleon III, and the loss of her only child. The death of t