Elisabeth Félix, better known only as Mademoiselle Rachel or simply Rachel, was a French actress. She became a prominent figure in French society, and was the mistress of, among others, Napoleon III, Prince Napoléon, and Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, the illegitimate son of Napoleon I. Efforts by newspapers to publish pictures of her on her deathbed led to the introduction of privacy rights into French law.
Portrait of Mlle Rachel by William Etty, 1840s
Portrait by Joseph Kriehuber
Rachel in Lady Macbeth (1849), Charles Louis Müller – Musée d'Art et d'Histoire du Judaïsme
Rachel as Chimène in Le Cid by Corneille
Napoleon III was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed on 4 September 1870.
Portrait of Napoleon III, 1862
Louis Bonaparte, King of Holland (1778–1846), the younger brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and father of Napoleon III
Hortense de Beauharnais (1783–1837), mother of Napoleon III
The lakeside house at Arenenberg, Switzerland, where Louis Napoleon spent much of his youth and exile