will leave all of the same information, I have some advantage because I was lucky to have the piece in my hands, even I photographed ... Photography remember having stuck between the blade of a book, and is now defunct.
At that time I did a story about a gold ring type seal with the image and caption Napoleon III. It was the size of the hand of a teenager or woman.
The finding, incidental, there was a mile or so from the N-432 to the path of Montilla, when faenero were farmers a stranger.
This new post will be different than the previous. I want to offer participation to history buffs and amateur researchers. Everyone can wear their bit. Together we will solve the enigma.
What makes this town a piece of Napoleon III? Who was it? What is your relationship with Castro? With Spain?
begin my work looking for information on people who can intervene. Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie.
Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Paris, 1808 - England, 1873), President of the Republic and Emperor of France. He was the nephew of the first Napoleon, and perhaps his natural son.
In his youth he had a career as a liberal conspirator. The Revolution of 1848 established the Second Republic in France. The restoration of universal suffrage in a predominantly peasant gave him electoral success became first-and only president of the Second Republic in 1848.
In 1851 she starred in a coup designed to perpetuate itself in office against the constitutional requirements, then blow that passed overwhelmingly won a plebiscite. He had begun his style of government, consisting of a mixture of authoritarianism in his person restoring the imperial dignity hereditary prince who had been named president then went to Napoleon III, Emperor of the French.
On January 20, 1853 he married Eugenia de Montijo English. He
Second Empire (1852-1970) a very significant stage in the process of industrialization in France.
The defeat in the Franco-Prussian War (1870) was complete, falling even Emperor prisoner of the Prussian army at the Battle of Sedan, also suitable for the fall of the French government.
Once released, the former emperor took refuge in England, from where he continued proclaiming the virtues of Bonapartism and claiming their rights to the throne, he never abdicated. The controversial and ambiguous dictator died three years later.
Palafox Maria Eugenia Portocarrero y Kirkpatrick, Countess of Teba, better known as Eugenia de Montijo was born in 1826 in Granada, in a family of ancient nobility of Andalusia.
one failed love, her mother decided take her to Paris, where he could forget and maybe find another suitor. They were not misguided because in fact, she noticed nothing more and nothing less than the future Emperor Napoleon III.
Their romance was a scandal in the French capital, and what began as a whim, thanks to the ability of Eugenia and her mother, ended in marriage.
played with a sense of responsibility for his role as Empress of France, perhaps too much. She believed that women, with good preparation, was as able as men to participate in politics, something evident today, but absolutely revolutionary at the time. Thus began participating in making decisions and influence the mood of her husband.
Some unfortunate decisions, such as intervention in Mexico or the Franco-Prussian War, which resulted in a resounding defeat, brought down the Empire and with it, Eugene.
had to seek asylum in England, where he waited for her husband, who was completely humiliated after the disaster of Sedan. At his death, she wept long, consoling his son, the heir of the house of Napoleon.
the emperor's death in 1873, Eugenia retired to a villa in Biarritz where he lived away from the affairs of French politics. His life took dyes romantic tragedy when his only son died in South Africa in 1879, killed by the Zulus. Genealogically connected with the House of Alba, occasionally stayed at the Palace of Liria and Dueñas palace in Seville. Some of his belongings, including paintings and furniture, fell into the hands of Alba.
The former empress died at half past eight of 11 July 1920 at age 94 in the Liria Palace in Madrid during one of his visits to Spain, his native country. His death resulted from an attack of uremia. She is buried in the imperial crypt beside her husband and son.
I searched the net, for if there were links with these two characters and location, not found any indication, including trips that would have made for the neighboring provinces, giving a negative result is only a reference to the protection of the Chapels of Cordoba by Eugenia de Montijo.
It is unlikely that any trip that does not know Castro had spent about to go to Granada for example (I have not found any visit) and more unlikely that the path taken was the Camino de Montilla, impracticable for a vehicle at the time.
Then I turn my interest was the ring. Who could take a real ring?
One of the oldest forms of amulet is the ring. Rich and powerful planets rings representing deities or registrations of protection, or as protective talismans, or as lavish symbol of divine power, but also as a decorative element as part of personal trousseau.
rings have evolved to the beat of man, and thousands of purposes. Today, most are mere ornaments, but we must not forget that the possession of so important a ring bearer was a recognition, an important cache addition to serving as a pass for the trip.
Many of the nobles of the court of Empress go to Seville, one of the places of refuge for Eugenia de Montijo.
find two details that lead me I think the most accurate theory. The first is that a person close to the emperor what could have been used as safe passage, the second, and I think more important was the love of archeology and the study of military and political exploits of Julius Caesar by Napoleon III, the father of modern archeology in France.
Such was the admiration of the emperor thought that Bonaparte and Caesar were two sides of the same coin. Napoleon's historical work was based on recognizing, identifying and excavating the sites described by Caesar. The was the only time I had the financial resources and diplomatic clout to move through the Mediterranean.
For Cesar movements in the battle of Munda sent Colonel Stoffel in 1863. Received the collaboration of English soldiers in cartographic items. This project is so large due to involve more experts in France. Excavations were conducted by the province of Cordoba. The nearest mirror around and Montilla.
I found it became part of the founding collection of the National Archaeological Museum with the name of "Ministry of War."
Montilla The road is plagued mirror towards villages and fields Romans.
So no doubt be very popular with the French Embassy in search of information about the battle of Soricaria; held very close to our village (in another direction in my theory.)
So ended concluding that the ring was lost by a character from the court of the Emperor in these expeditions.
