The French Crown Jewels ... Pictures Portrait of Napoleon III who declared himself emperor in 1852, with Empress Eugenie & son Eugene Louis Jean Joseph When the empire collapsed in 1870, following ...

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If you're as in-the-know as the French, you might head west to Basque country, where royalty like Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, as well as style icons Frank Sinatra and Coco Chanel ...

Paris last week talked of Empress Eugénie and of ostriches in ... Ostrich farmers on the French Riviera, in California, Egypt and Algeria, bemoaning the seven lean years since hats were last ...

Eugénie had it enlarged and the interiors remodelled in a French taste between 1880 and 1884. She also commissioned a church-mausoleum. The architect was the Paris-born Hippolyte Destailleur ...

Through a mist of perfume, she reels off vignettes about Guerlain’s innovations and famous patrons, including French Empress Eugenie, Josephine Baker, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy ...

Through a mist of perfume, she reels off vignettes about Guerlain’s innovations and famous patrons, including French Empress Eugenie, Josephine Baker, Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy ...

When the French state scandalously sold off most of its crown jewels, Tiffany bought a third of them. A brooch made with 125 diamonds set in gold and silver that Empress Eugénie ordered from the ...