person
Empress Eugénie
also: императрица Евгения, Eugénie de Montijo
The last Empress of the French, consort of Napoleon III until his fall in 1870, remembered decades later for her striking dark-browed beauty; Mrs. von Rabbeck's resemblance to her signals a formal, faded grandeur.
Reading notes
- The Kiss §16 the Empress Eugénie
Eugénie de Montijo, the last Empress of the French (consort of Napoleon III until his fall in 1870), was renowned for her striking, dark-browed beauty in illustrated press decades after her reign ended; comparing Mrs. von Rabbeck to her signals a formal, faded grandeur -- the resemblance is to a bygone royal image, not a living public figure.