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...Paseo had been laid out by the Emperor Maximilian in 1865 as a shortcut from downtown Mexico to his palace atop Chapultepec, three miles away. It was called the Calzada del Emperador (Emperor's Highway) until the empire's fall. Republicans renamed it Paseo de la Reforma in honor of their laws separating church & state. Later, the rich lined it with great mansions; France's best landscape designer was imported to make it look like the Champs Elys...
...intrigue, inspired by a gypsy prophecy, which helped make Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Czar of Bulgaria. Before his birth his mother, Princess Clementine of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter of France's Louis Philippe, consulted a gypsy fortune teller who told her that, though she had lived as the daughter of an uncrowned monarch, she would die the mother of a crowned one. Much of the rest of her life was spent shopping for a crown, and training Ferdinand to wear it. As part of that training she placed him in the Austrian hussars, where...
Died. Ferdinand Maximilian Karl Leopold Maria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, 87, ex-Czar of Bulgaria; in Coburg, Germany (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Maximilian's Masters. Twelve months later Napoleon III, having fired his general and studied maps of Puebla himself, sent 30,000 men to take the place (now renamed Puebla de Zaragoza), drive Juárez to the Rio Grande border, and install Maximilian as Mexico's emperor. But Mexicans had learned the meaning of the Cinco de Mayo. "You have fought the first soldiers of the day," said a patriot to the ragged victors of Puebla, "and you have been the first to conquer them...
...never gave up. After the U.S. Civil War ended and the French had marched out of Mexico, Emperor Maximilian was dethroned and shot. Thereafter, Mexico, free and independent, celebrated the Cinco de Mayo as its national holiday...