By the beginning of 1867 Napoleon III was bringing his troops home and advised Emperor Maximilian to return with them. By this time Maximil...

Carlota arrived in France on August 8, 1866 and it seemed that the French Emperor was somewhat intimidated by the idea of facing her and he...

With their relationship with the French deteriorating, Maximilian and Carlota began to address the subject of the succession. Empress Carlo...

It was 1863, French forces had been fighting in Mexico which had only just come out of a period of internal conflict and the American Civil...

The woman who would become the last Empress of Mexico was altogether a tragic figure. She was a woman of great dreams and high ideals, of in...