The Empress has her followers.
Masses in his memory have just been organized with great pomp in Paris, in Saint-Eugene and then in Saint-Augustin, under the dome which was to be the necropolis of the family of Napoleon III.
The figure of the one who lived long enough to meet Jean Cocteau continues to haunt the imagination.
In
Portraits-souvenir
, the poet recalled the one he had known thanks to Lucien Daudet, a young page distraught at the court of this last sovereign who survived the disaster of Sedan for fifty years: "
The youth who enter bears old age coming out.
It's an interminable minute, a frightening minuet figure, a night of time
. ”
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Historian Étienne Chilot has just found and published another unexpected testimony, due to Count Félix Baciocchi (1889-1975).
This typed text is preserved today by his family and allows us to understand from the inside this strange little society, the nostalgic entourage of Eugenie at the beginning of the 20th century.
At 26, Baciocchi
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