This month marks the 150th anniversary of the last attempt at European rule in Mexico. Local historian M. M. McAllen brings this fascinating story to life in her new book, Maximilian and Carlota. It ...

It was a bloody, strange, turbulent time with a cast of thousands from 22 nations, a five-foot populist Indian president, a six-foot, golden-haired Austrian archduke and a pretty, gifted Belgian ...

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoleon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and ...

Local historian M. M. McAllen brings to life a little-known pocket of French influence on Mexican history in Maximilian and Carlota. Despite Spain’s almost unilateral impact on Mexico, it was not the ...

“Maximilian and Carlota: Last Empire in Mexico,” an exhibit at the Witte Museum, examines the brief and ill-fated rule of the emperor and empress of Mexico. The show, which accompanies the release of ...

As the Civil War raged in what had recently been the United States, another bloody civil war was erupting south of the border in the 1860s. With America preoccupied, French emperor Napoléon III - the ...

How do you imagine being in a place that you've never visited, that belongs to the past? Over the five years I spent writing Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico, I found I needed to ...

“What happens,” writes the Mexican novelist Fernando del Paso, “when an author can’t escape history? . . . what can you do . . . when you don’t want to avoid history, but do want to achieve poetry?” ...

EXCLUSIVE: Big Love and Getting On creators Mark Olsen and Will Scheffer are developing a three-year drama series about Maximilian of Habsburg and his wife Carlota for Talipot Studio. The series is ...

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