Twelve Days of Xmas Trivia

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Napoleon III was supposed to be a real womanizer, but the coy Eugenie stuck to her virginity and was the one to capture his heart (for a while). There's a story that he supposedly asked her, while courting, how to get to her room. She replied "by way of the chapel," leaving no doubt that it would take marriage to get to her boudoir.

So, he married her, but the love didn't last that long. She miscarried their first child and then almost died in childbirth with their only child, a son. This soured her on going through all of that again, and her husband went back to his old ways of finding "love." Apparently, she gave her blessing to that arrangement.