Napoleon III, Empress Eugenie and her Secret Duke of Sesto: Imperial Wedding of Old Paris: Personal History of Second Empire France Entwined with Royal Spain--Palace Intrigues inside the Tuileries, Saint-Cloud, Compiegne, Fontainebleau and Versalles, 1825

Summary: Frustrations of a single woman and the Napoleonic heir of France that led to their marriage in the most magnificent wedding during the most romantic era of European history

Principals: Emperor Napoleon III; Eugénie de Montijo, Countess of Teba; and her girlhood and lifetime love, the Duke of Sesto

Theme: The ultimate unrequited love story: a woman who tried to commit suicide twice, devastated that the Dukes of Alba and Sesto each preferred her sister. Eugénie reluctantly agreed to ma...