Farnborough Hill was the principal home of the Empress Eugnie, the Spanish widow of Napoleon III. January 2011; Napoleonica La Revue 11(2):183 European Architecture, Art: Today, only the Mausoleum functions as Eugnie originally envisaged. She spent the night of the anniversary of Louiss death kneeling in prayer by the cross placed where he had fallen in the little valley when her candle flickered, she believed that he was there with her. . Its quite dramatic enough without it.. Kaiser William II would come in 1894. The Farnborough complex should be read as a defiant statement of both Frenchness and historical-mindedness, as the remarkable and reviled woman who today lies in its crypt strove to keep the memory of her ancestors alive. She even went to the cinema. I am alone now, Eugnie wrote to her blind old mother at Madrid early in September 1879, in a country where I am forced to live and die. She described herself as truly crushed. Also returned were her collections of Louis XVI furniture and Svres porcelain from Compigne, and the Gobelin tapestries of Don Quixote from the Villa Eugnie. While her Republican enemies (those who would go on to overthrow the Second Empire and declare the Third Republic in 1870) would depict her as a violent agitator, those closer to her said she assumed the Regent role admirably. Upon the request of Queen Victoria, a cross was erected at his death site, and a monument was built in St Georges Chapel. Here, Eugnie faithfully reconstructed his study at Camden Place in Chislehurst in Kent, where the imperial family had lived from 1870 to 1880. Yet France rejected her even before Sedan, as a foreigner and as a woman who dared to covet power. We know that she was attracted to the surrounding landscape, which reminded her of the imperial palace at Compigne, and we know that she referred to the house as her cottage, which has echoes of Marie-Antoinette at the Petit Trianon. In 1994, The Religious of Christian Education transferred ownership to The Farnborough Hill Trust and the School is now under lay management. Always practical, Eugnie installed a wireless on her yacht, as well as electric light and a telephone at Farnborough Hill. During her lifetime, Eugnie was known as the 'Empress of Fashion' of the 19th century. Empress Eugenie: A footnote history. She took this in her stride and adapted commendably: her refurbishing of her Farnborough Home, Farnborough Hill, included all the latest. He looked to Saint-Denis, the traditional necropolis of the French monarchy, as did his nephew Napoleon III, who commissioned Viollet-le-Duc to design a caveau imprial there. Photographs by Will Pryce for the Country Life Picture Library. British Art, She was a guest on Thistle when the kaiser came on board at Bergen in 1907, and noticed how Eugnie rather liked him, and said he is always most agreeable and charming to her. For her generosity, she was conferred the Order of the British Empire (GBE . Empress consort of the French; Tenure: 30 January 1853 - 4 September 1870: Born 5 May 1826 Granada, Kingdom of Spain: Died: 11 July 1920 (aged 94) The current community draws upon the contemplative tradition of its French roots. She bought a car, too, a large black and green Renault, engaging a somewhat erratic chauffeur to drive it on one occasion the vehicle and its passengers had to be rescued from a ditch by a steam roller, while in 1913 he was fined for speeding although his employer disliked going at speed. Beyond the original portion of the gallery, Eugnie created two completely new inteiors. In 1873 Napoleon III, nephew of the more celebrated emperor, died in disgrace at Camden Place, now the home of Chislehurst Golf Club, having endured German captivity and the disastrous defeat of his armies in the Franco-Prussian war. The allusion to Spain is in the architecture, but it is easily missed, in view of the overtly French detail that we have just discussed. On the opposite side of the room, and long since removed, Eugnie hung the most famous painting in the house. However, a Spanish doctor performed the operation without an anaesthetic, restoring her sight completely. Dont you think a storm is brewing the most serious problem I can see in European affairs is the antagonism between England and Germany. She added, The danger of war is no longer in doubt. In January 1914, just before he left to take up his post as ambassador to St Petersburg, she warned him, Something is rotten in Russia.(As long ago as 1876 she had written to her mother that In Russia the nobility is corrupt and the court without morals, and the people know it.). As time passed, they grumbled to each other about the infirmities of advancing age, Eugnies being rheumatism and bronchitis which, privately, she blamed on the English weather. The first was the Cloister Gallery, which provided a ceremonial route into the second, the dining room. The Prince was also memorialised in the adjoining room, the Cabinet du Prince. En route she usually stayed in Paris at the Hotel Continental, because it stood opposite the site of the Tuileries, overlooking the gardens where the Prince Imperial had played as a little boy on one occasion a gardener scolded her for picking a flower. In 1911, with Eugnies grudging permission, Lucien published LImpratrice Eugnie. The crossing reveals itself as one moves westwards through the building. The latter was located in a completely new wing, built on by the Empress. The funerals in their hometown of Chislehurst (Kent) drew in huge crowds, both French and English, a testament to the respect the Imperial family had gained since they arrived in England. Qty: Add to bag Description Within a decade, Empress Eugnie had lost her Empire, her home, her husband, and her only son, Prince Imperial Louis-Napolon. He had plastered the capital with posters demanding a referendum to decide if France should become an empire again with himself as emperor and, promptly arrested by four gendarmes, was immured in the Conciergerie. Eugenie presided at dinner with her back to the window, the tapestries before and beside her. Empress-Regentif(typeof ez_ad_units!='undefined'){ez_ad_units.push([[250,250],'thesocialtalks_com-large-mobile-banner-1','ezslot_9',146,'0','0'])};__ez_fad_position('div-gpt-ad-thesocialtalks_com-large-mobile-banner-1-0'); When the need arose, Eugnie stepped into her husbands shoes and ran the country politically. Winterhalter began an official portrait of Empress Eugnie (Eugnie de Montijo, Condesa de Teba, 1826-1920) shortly after her marriage in 1853 to Napoleon III, emperor of France, but it was not exhibited until 1855. . Find out more. Just a glance at one of her notebooks, in which she jots down reactions to what she is reading or to a stimulating remark, would show you how wide was the gap in sympathy and outlook that had existed between herself and most of the people who then surrounded her. The latter spaces contain copies of the side panels of Rubenss Descent from the Cross in Antwerp Cathedral. Smyth, Daudet and Filon testify to the empresss integrity. Her qualities were even likened to Queen Victoria, possessed by no other Empress or Queen of the period. As well as a roll of priceless silk that had been presented to her by Sultan Abdul Aziz Eugnie gave them her wedding dress, with which to make vestments. It stands over a substantial crypt, with a sacristy attached, and it is connected to the original monastery building by a semi-underground passageway. While she has few illusions about mankind, she detests cynicism. These canopied settees were made in Italy in 1882 and bought specially for Farnborough, but they exemplify the taste for early-Renaissance furniture that was common in France in the Second Empire. Over the fireplace is a portrait medallion of Napoleon III, made by the Venetian sculptor Luigi Borro in 1865. She was also an incredibly inspiring, modern woman, paving the way for many of the 21st Centurys social, educational, charitable, and fashionable standards. For this, she was awarded a special medal, presented to her by the King, George V, in 1919. During her lifetime, Eugnie was known as the Empress of Fashion of the 19, would become incredibly popular. She also owned one of the first motorcars in Farnborough Village. The visitor who ventures beyond the roundabouts and dual carriage-ways of modern Farnborough will quickly encounter the remnants of an extraordinary 19th-century estate that played an important role in the history of Europe. A promoter of girls education and political autonomy. A favourite anecdote of the period was when Eugnie met two orphaned children, and she replied that she would adopt and provide for them. Under Eugnie from 1881, the house was substantially renovated, its external and interior decoration modified, in a process akin to translation into a French idiom. If unacclaimed by her former subjects, it was received with fitting pomp at Farnborough, drawn from the station on a gun-carriage escorted by cavalry to the abbey church. Farnborough Hill became an imperial palace in more than just a nostalgic sense. Often curiously ill at ease with priests, Eugnie soon fell out with the canons, who seem to have been a boorish and uncouth group and whose prior was in any case a republican. Her straight back and upright shoulders do not touch the back of the armchair. Among the books she was reading he saw one of the volumes of Sorels massive LEurope et la Rvolution Franaise. In 1870, the Tuileries (the royal and imperial palace in Paris) was converted into a war hospital, where she could often be found caring for the patients herself. She later wrote, as recorded by Edward Legge, who wrote several biographies on Eugnie, I am left alone, the sole remnant of a shipwreck I cannot even die (The Empress Eugnie 1870-1910, E. Legge). Today, Empress Eugnie should be a household name and represent patriotism, benevolence, patience. The second idea pertains to Spain. Lucien Daudet also called on the empress. This paper aims to substantiate the oral history tradition of the monks of Farnborough Abbey that links the 'Imperial Vestments' in their care with Empress Eugnie of France (1826-1920). But it is important to remember that the first emperor had never intended to be buried at Les Invalides. Unable to enlarge the mortuary chapel at Chislehurst, she had found a site at Farnborough where she could build a great church dedicated to St Michael, patron saint of France, with a crypt in which their bodies and her own would lie. Their friendship when far beyond what protocol demanded, with Victoria charmed by her courage, charm, and cheerfulness. Get the latest updates on new releases, special offers, and media highlights when you subscribe to our email lists! For the moment the English were sorry for her, she said but their sympathy would soon fade. Sadly, Daudet never presented Proust, who might have immortalised her in the way that he did Princesse Mathilde. Eugnie again converted her home into a World War One hospital in 1915, supplying it with the latest technologies. It is late French Gothic, flamboyant, with swirling tracery, ogee arches, flying buttresses and soaring gargoyles, crowned by a small Baroque dome that is a copy of the dome over the Invalides. All of these objects are now gone, but the interior is otherwise little changed and the picture hooks remain exactly where the Empress placed them. Farnborough Hill's setting is certainly unique. Predictably, Eugnie approved of the suffragette movement. The Funeral procession to Farnborough with Prince Victor Napoleon and his wife following the coffin, 20 July 1920 [Press Photo-Agence Rol] BnF Gallica. Ethel Smyth and Lucien Daudet were there too. . Find out more. Both churches were established by Ferdinand and Isabella, the founders of modern Spain. Eugnie was placed above the main altar following her death in 1920. The architect behind these changes was Hippolyte Destailleur, remembered today for Waddesdon Manor, but whose portfolio extended to projects across Europe. It was primarily for this reason that she relocated to Hampshire. Architects such as Destailleur were fascinated by periods of transition, none more so than the end of the Middle Ages and the beginnings of the Renaissance. ", "Architectural historian Anthony Geraghty is the first scholar to treat the complex at Farnborough as a single entity, offering a careful dissection of the house, the collectionsinside and the mausoleum. While describing her as the kindest person she had ever met, Ethel admits that Eugnie lacked poetic imagination and suffered from an extremely halting and uncertain sense of humour. The community remained French until 1947, when it was repopulated by English monks from Prinknash Abbey. Therefore, he decided to make it the official color, Pantone No. The small community is known for its liturgy (which is sung in Latin and Gregorian chant ), its pipe organ, and its liturgical publishing and printing. They allow us to take a tour through the principal rooms of the house, complete with commentary on the furniture, paintings, porcelain and bibelots that together made the house a mix of dynastic shrine and intimate museum. It was as an exile from France that he was buried again in English soil, first at Chislehurst and then, from 1888, at Farnborough, where he was reinterred in the crypt of a newly constructed abbey, in effect a chantry, complete with a community of monks to say prayers for his soul. What impressed her most was the way betrayed, falsely accused, vilified the empress has attacked no one, nor uttered a single word in her own defence. The nave is lit by six large windows containing bottle glass. The picturesque and historic surroundings give the School a firm sense of identity, providing a safe and stable environment where girls experience a happy atmosphere of friendship and support. Her judgement did not fail her Bigge ended as private secretary to King George V, who created him Lord Stamfordham. The Empress bought the Farnborough Hill estate in 1880, following a decade of personal tragedy: the collapse of the Second Empire (1852-70), the death of Napoleon III, and the loss of her only child. She never indulged in xenophobia, however, rebuking anyone who referred to Les Boches. In 1880, the Empress Eugnie bought a house in Farnborough. An undeniably eccentric building, which to Lucien Daudet appeared like a fantastic village, its elaborate roofs were at different levels and it had an incongruous little clock tower. It was not lessened by the fall of the Second Empire; Victoria often visited Eugnie at Chislehurst and then when she moved to Farnborough (Hampshire). The Third Republic had protested on learning that the empress would be given a twenty-one gun salute, and, while it did not fire the salute, a battery of Royal Horse Artillery remained drawn up outside the abbey throughout the service. Since no doctor, British or French, had dared give chloroform to someone so frail, Eugnie remained half blind from cataracts. These were purchased during the Second Empire and displayed in the chapel at the Tuileries Palace in Paris. Isabel remained devoted to the empress for the rest of her life, her diaries and reminiscences in The Times complementing Ethels memoirs. This was constructed in the 1850s and remained empty until the 1950s, when it was swept away as redundant. The house at Farnborough Hill had originally been built by H.E. It was her last and most effective intervention in foreign affairs. She made no attempt to modernise Kendalls heavy Gothic detail, but furnished these spaces with unremarkable modern pieces and hung the walls with new paintings and informal family portraits. The architecture also aligns the Bona-parte family with the regal history of Europe. The crowd at Louis-Napolons funeral was estimated to have been around 100,000. Then, once settled in England, she continued to donate to most of her former public charities with donations from her private purse, commenting that others should not have to suffer just because she had. Finally, wearing a nuns habit, she was laid to rest. Nevertheless, more than a few contemporaries thought of her as a character out of a play by Corneille, whose women are embodiments of stoicism and endurance, driven by love, honour and duty, and Admiral Jurien de La Gravire often compared her with Chimne in Le Cid. Here it lay in state for two days, draped in a blue imperial pall which bore the golden eagles and golden bees of the Bonapartes. These were a community of scholarly Benedictine monks led by Dom Cabrol, former prior of Solesmes, who had been forced to leave their native land by a growing climate of anticlericalism. Empress Eugnie lived here from 1880 until her death in 1920. While she was no longer an Empress, she still entertained royal visitors especially her dear friend Queen Victoria, in whom she found inspiration and in the grand residence she created at Farnborough Hill she sought to maintain a degree of princely reprsentation. The empress believed firmly that, together, France and England were unbeatable. To purchase a copy, please contact the School [email protected] the first instance. When his system of wireless communication was established in Canada, she was the first person after Edward VII to whom he transmitted a message. The Mausoleum remains the only official monument to the French Second Empire (185270). She also owned one of the first motorcars in Farnborough Village. The Victorians called it Old English a loose evocation of Elizabethan vernacular architecture. ", 1427 E. 60th Street Chicago, IL 60637 USA. Eugnie had renewed her friendship with Empress Elizabeth of Austria, by now a melancholy, slightly unbalanced wanderer, and became one of the few people in whom Elizabeth would confide. Kendall for the publisher Thomas Longman, in an emphatic, if undistinguished, variant of old English. To either side of this are large pieces of walnut furniture. There are periodic calls for the return of the bodies to France, but such a move could never be justified. The Empress bought the Farnborough Hill estate in 1880, following a decade of personal tragedy: the collapse of the Second Empire (1852-70), the death of Napoleon III, and the loss of her only child. They were returned to Eugnie in 1880 and have hung here ever since. The design has no pretensions to authenticity and it looks back to the 16th century via the pattern books of the early 19th. Acknowledgements: Alexandra Neil and Clare Duffin, A sprawling house with a pair of gardens designed by some of the most brilliant minds in modern horticulture is. Get exclusive access to the top art stories, interviews and exhibition reviews, published in print and online. Also known Farnborough Abbey, St. Michael's Abbey is an absolute gem of great historic interest. This was a defining moment for the new regime, placing them amongst the power from the mighty empires of Europe. The site was on another knoll, opposite Farnborough Hill, separated by the London to Southampton railway line. As a result, the room faces east, which, according to 19th-century custom, was anathema for a drawing room. That Jaguars all-electric I-Pace is the 2019 World Car of the Year comes as no surprise to Mark Hedges. She often wrote to Eugnie, especially after her son Crown Prince Rudolph shot himself and his mistress at Mayerling in 1889. The son of a famous writer and one of Marcel Prousts young friends, Lucien Daudet was a homosexual dilettante who was fascinated by the Bonapartes and had great charm, and after presenting himself to Eugnie unintroduced at the Villa Cyrnos in 1899, having arrived on a bicycle, he became almost an adopted son. Eyes sunk deep in their sockets, eyeballs glassy and staring, he wrote. A warning that the Germans might bomb Farnborough Hill in error, as it was next to the Royal Aerodrome Factory, exhilarated her. They argued that few women had suffered as intensely as she had. A dense hang brought together Winterhalters famous group portrait of Eugnie and her ladies-in-waiting (a star exhibit of the Exposition Universelle of 1855), a version of Davids painting Napoleon Crossing the Alps, and in the grand salon, a suite of four magnificent Grard portraits representing Louis-Napolons parents Louis Bonaparte and Hortense with their eldest son, a dazzling Josphine in her coronation robes and lisa Bonaparte, then Grand Duchess of Tuscany, with her daughter. The Empress in 1862. The Franco-Spanish hybridity of the building nevertheless alludes not only to Eugnies role as patron, but to the Prince Imperial, who carried the blood of France and Spain in his veins. If they come, she told Ethel, then at least we shall be in the front line. Ethel suspected that her own terror increased the empresss pleasure at the prospect. The empress Eugnie - the Spanish-born last empress-consort of France, wife of Napoleon III, mother of the prince imperial - lived for the last 40 years of her life in Farnborough, between. Eugnie again converted her home into a World War One hospital in 1915, supplying it with the latest technologies. Eugnie was shrewd enough to guess that conditions in Germany were very bad indeed when the German army postponed its offensive in the summer of 1918. After the trip Evelyn Wood remained a friend for life while she took a personal interest in the career of Arthur Bigge, whom she considered to be exceptionally able, and on her recommendation the queen made him her assistant private secretary. The general outline of the upper church, with its short nave, its spacious crossing and its apsidal chancel, was based on a pair of late-medieval churches: San Juan de los Reyes in Toledo, founded in 1476, and the Capilla Real in Granada, built in 150517. They purchased the house at Farnborough Hill in 1927 and commissioned Adrian Gilbert Scott to design additional school buildings which included the stunning School Chapel. The choice of architectural style, however, was unusual for its date, at least for a house of this size. Most of them were young relatives from Spain or former courtiers from France, such as Anna Murat, Jurien de La Gravire, Mme Carette or even Mme de Gallifet, although not her husband, the hero of Sedan. The furniture combined historical pieces around the edges of the room with modern pieces in the centre, perpetuating the informal court etiquette of the Second Empire. Despite a cut on her face and blood on her dress, the imperial couple arrived at the opera only slightly late. None of this bothered Eugnie. Telephone: +44 (0)1252 546105, ext.211 Fax: +44 (0)1252 372822 Website: www.farnboroughabbey.org Print Return to top Share it In December 1919 Eugnie returned to Cap Martin, stopping en route in Paris at the Htel Continental, where Palologue called on her. A Talk by Anthony Geraghty In 1880, following the death of her husband, Napoleon III, in exile in England, Empress Eugnie bought an estate at Farnborough, Hampshire, where she commissioned the architect Gabriel Hippolyte Destailleur to remodel and extend the existing house, which became the setting . Indeed, with its painted ceiling decorated with flowers, it is unmistakably in the style of Napoleon III. The Mausoleum is today the conventual church of the monks, who come together seven times a day in prayer. Saint Michael's Abbey ( French: Abbaye Saint-Michel) is a Benedictine abbey in Farnborough, Hampshire, England. Moreover, as a Spaniard, she set a particularly high value on praying for the dead. The Empress Eugnie of France died in exile 100 years ago in July 1920 at a house in Hampshire: Farnborough In Focus: The 160-year-old 'Photoshopped' picture which shocked Victorian England An exhibition looking at four of the giants of Victorian photography has at its centre a remarkable work by the A phantom imperial court shared Eugnies exile here, one or two of its members spending the rest of their lives with her at Farnborough Hill notably the veteran secretary Franceschini Pietri. This abbey is also known for enshrining a Pontifically crowned image of Saint Joseph . To those who know and sympathise with her story, the shrine is a place of extraordinary poignancy, her presence almost tangible. The movement of the Queen, crippled though she was, was amazingly easy and dignified; but the empress, who was then sixty-seven, made such an exquisite sweep down to the floor and up again, all in one gesture, that I can only liken it to a flower bent and released in the wind, Ethel tells us. Eugnie became godmother to, and the namesake of, one of Victorias granddaughters. 11.50. Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over 25. Learning in 1917 that the Allies considered Alsace-Lorraine to be part of Germany, she sent the French government a letter written to her by William I in 1871, in which he admitted that the provinces had been annexed purely for strategic reasons and not because their inhabitants were seen as Germans. Even so, informally if not officially, her relations with the Republic grew more relaxed as the years went by. During his reign Napoleon had prepared a tomb for himself in the crypt of the abbey of Saint-Denis with the kings of France, and until 1879 she had confidently assumed that he would be reinterred there, after her sons restoration. Eugnies private rooms were located at the south end of the house, in what had been the principal reception rooms in Longmans time. Another room re-created the Prince Imperials study at Chislehurst in every detail, with his clothes, his swords and guns, and his books; it was a cross between a museum and a shrine. The Empress bought the Farnborough Hill estate in 1880, following a decade of personal tragedy: the collapse of the Second Empire (1852-70), the death of Napoleon III, and the loss of her only child. However, when it reached the Prince Imperials bedroom she nearly fainted and, asking for a chair and a glass of water, raised her veil. The Abbey sits within the ample grounds of Farnborough Hill, a neo-gothic mansion first purchased by Eugnie from the Longman family in 1884. This domestic temple to the Napoleonic legend continued with some fine sculptural portrait busts and, in the tower and the stables, a special museum of Napoleonic relics, from the poignant to the macabre, in a manner recalling the displays of the Muse des Souverains, which during the Second Empire had occupied the Louvre. © Fondation Napolon 2023 ISSN 2272-1800. In accordance with Eugenies last wishes, on her death in 1920 she was buried above the main altar of the chapel in the crypt, flanked by the catafalcs of her husband and son in two side chapels. Smith 0.00 0 ratings0 reviews 20 pages, Hardcover First published December 31, 2001 Book details & editions About the author W.H.C. Its deployment at Farnborough Hill is not as obvious as it once was, as Eugnies additions have a decidedly French accent, but it was Kendall, working for Longman, who designed the mullion and transom windows of the ground floor and the elaborate half-timbering and decorated gables of the upper storeys. In 1880, he was invited to revise his designs for a mausoleum at Chislehurst. The lantern is enclosed and the crossing is lit by the large windows that dominate the shallow transepts. Towering folly at Liverpool Street Station. The latter included major works of Napoleon I and his family, by David, Grard and Riesener, and of Napoleon III and his family, by Carpeaux, Winterhalter and others. She almost invariably went to bed before eleven, the tiny household bowing and curtsying to her when she retired and she herself curtsying in response, as if they were all still at the Tuileries. This was likewise true of the rooms set aside for the household, which were located on the west side of the gallery, beyond the staircase. Before the Csar dclass was released and expelled from France, Eugnie rushed over to Paris to see if she could help, her main reason, however, being to try and unite the two branches of the Bonapartist party. [1] (Palologues account of their meeting should be treated with caution.). Having received the last sacraments, she died very peacefully at 8.30 the following morning in a room that had once been her sister Pacas bedroom, and in Pacas old bed. Here, she placed Carpeauxs celebrated statue of the Prince Imperial with his dog Nero, now in the Muse dOrsay. Situated on the highest point in Farnborough, it has marvellous views over the surrounding countryside. In 1873, Napoleon III died following a gallstone operation, and then her son was tragically killed while fighting for the British in the Zululand in 1879. 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