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Eugénie de Montijo, born Doña MarÃa Eugenia Ignatia Augustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, Countess of TebaSpanish: Doña MarÃa Eugenia Ignacia Agustina Palafox de Guzmán Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, Condesa de Teba, became on marriage Eugénie, Empress of the FrenchFrench: Eugénie, Impératrice des Français (May 5, 1826 – July 11, 1920) was Empress Consort of France (1853-1871), the wife of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French.
Empress
The last Empress of the French was born in Granada, Spain, to Don Cipriano de Palafox y Portocarrero, 1785-1839, Count of Teba, Count of Montijo, Marquis of Algava and Duke of Peñaranda, a grandee of Spain, and his half-Scottish, half-Spanish wife, MarÃa Manuela Kirkpatrick, a daughter of the Scots-born William Kirkpatrick of Closeburn, who became U. S. Consul to Málaga and later was a wholesale wine merchant.Eugenia's older sister, MarÃa Franci
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