Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte Gallery

Rushing With Horrid Yells They Seized The Hill, 1902. Artist: AP

Rushing With Horrid Yells They Seized The Hill, 1902. The Battle of Solferino was fought during the Second Italian War of Independence. It was a victory for the French and Sardinian army commanded by Napoleon III over the Austrians. From Battles of the Nineteenth Century, Vol. I. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris, New York & Melbourne, 1902]

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Dr TW Evans, American dentist and biographer of Napoleon III, 19th century

Dr TW Evans, American dentist and biographer of Napoleon III, 19th century. Thomas Wiltberger Evans first treated Louis-Napoleon, the future Emperor Napoleon III, but then President of the french Second Republic, in 1850. He became the Emperor's official dentist and was the first American to be admitted to the Legion d'Honneur. In 1870 after the defeat of Napoleon's army at Sedan and the ensuing overthrow of the Second Empire, Evans was instrumental in ensuring the escape of the Empress Eugenie to exile in England. He wrote an account of Napoleon's reign in his Memoirs of Dr Thomas W Evans: the Second French Empire. A photograph from Album de Photographies dans L'Intimite de Personnages Illustres, 1865-1905, 4th album, Editions MD, Paris

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HM the Empress Eugenie, c1879.Artist: Faustin

HM the Empress Eugenie, c1879. Caricature portrait of Empress Eugenie de Montijo (1826-1920), wife of Napoleon III of France. She is in mourning next to a bust of her son who died in 1879: A heart as full of sorrow as the sea of sands, a quote from William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona. With the death of Eugenie's only child, Napoleon IV, Prince Imperial (1856-1879), died also the last dynastic hope for the restoration of the Bonapartes to the French throne

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