Maximilian I of Mexico
Biography
Maximilian, Franz Joseph brother, accepted the Mexican crown Napoleon III offered, backed by French bayonets. Liberal laws in an conservative alliance, he alienated both sides. The US pressured, France withdrew 1867, he refused abdication, captured at Queretaro, executed with Miramon and Mejia, June 19 1867. Edouard Manet painted the execution, the empire of three years, the Habsburg tragedy exported.
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