Editing Alice Heine (section)

==Early life==
Marie Alice Heine was born at 910 Rue Royale, in the [[French Quarter]] of New Orleans, Louisiana. Her French father, [[Michel Heine]], was a scion of a prominent German-rooted Berlin and Paris banking Jewish family. His brother was [[Armand Heine]], and both were cousins of poet [[Heinrich Heine]] and of journalist and press publisher [[Gustav Heine von Geldern|Gustav Heine]], later Baron Heine von Geldern. Michel was born in [[Bordeaux]], France, and moved to New Orleans in 1843, and become a successful [[financier]] and [[real-estate developer]]. Heine's mother was Marie Amélie Céleste Miltenberger, daughter of Joseph Alphonse Miltenberger, an [[architect]] and cast-iron importer by trade of French Alsatian descent,<ref>Xavier Maillart, "The first experience (1858) and last encounter (1879) of the Prince Imperial with the African world" (French Presence in KwaZulu-Natal, Dundee, 2016)</ref> and his [[Creole peoples|Creole]] wife, Marie Céleste Dorfeville. Her family built three interconnected Miltenberger mansions on Rue Royale. She had two younger brothers, Paul Henri and Isaac Georges.

The [[American Civil War]] sent the family back to France, where the teenaged Alice's youth and beauty, and her family's wealth, made a great impression in Parisian society. A & M Heine, her father's firm, helped finance [[Franco-Prussian War|Napoleon III's war with Prussia]].

Michel and Amélie became regulars in the court of [[Napoleon III]], who, along with the [[Eugénie de Montijo|Empress Eugénie]], became godparents to the New Orleans-born Heine.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/alice-heine |title=www.knowlouisiana.org |access-date=2018-07-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720135637/http://www.knowlouisiana.org/entry/alice-heine |archive-date=2018-07-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>