Eugene, or secrets of the French court. In 2 volumes

History has retained a lot of names of the august persons who, having no talent for governing the country, plunged their peoples into wars, revolution, poverty and tragedy. However, many of them managed the state, sincerely believing that they work for its prosperity.
Evgenia Montiho, who became the last empress of France, like a game, was amused by a high position and the rules based on her whims and whims, not thinking about the consequences. The fate of this" fatal goddess of Europe "tells the novel by George Born" Eugene, or the secrets of the French court, who is considered the best work of the author.
In the first volume of the two-volume book offered to your attention, the youth of the Spanish countess, the beautiful Evgenia Montikho, whose ideal was Maria-Antoinette. Eugene was disappointed in his first love: she was rejected, which was a blow to the proud, proud girl. Since then, she has forgotten how to love, perceiving this feeling as a "brake on the way to the great." Confident in her beauty and possessing exorbitant ambition, she achieved the location of Napoleon III, who not only made Eugene his wife and French empress, but also firmly fell under her influence.
In the second volume, we are witnessing dramatic events that shocked France of the 70s of the XIX century, the unbridled luxury of the French court and the crash of the empire, and with this, the falls of brilliant Eugene. The novel "Eugene, or the Secrets of the French Court" is filled with the intricacies of political and love affairs. Louis Napoleon’s stormy events are visible through the curtain of the boudoir of his magnificent wife