This is a recording of a talk called Farnborough Hill and the Empress Eugénie by Anthony Geraghty which was recorded on 25th October 2022.
In 1880, following the death of her husband, Napoleon III, in exile in England, Empress Eugénie 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 for her remarkable collection.
Anthony Geraghty, Professor of History of Art at the University of York, is the author of a book on the Empress at Farnborough, to be published this summer.
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Image: Farnborough Hill . Photo by Lewis Hulbert - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=28479918
