The Sánchez Navarro's prominence in Coahuila was reduced after 1855 by the rise of a political enemy, Santiago Vidaurri, whose partisans plundered the latifundio and Jacobo Sánchez Navarro's mansion in Saltillo. The family supported the French invasion of Mexico in 1862 and the subsequent imposition by France of the Austrian prince Maximilian as emperor of Mexico. Jacobo's brother Carlos became prominent at the court of Maximilian in Mexico City, while Jacobo managed the latifundio. In 1867 insurgent forces led by Benito Juárez overthrew and executed Maximilian and Carlos was imprisoned for a year. Carlos then went into exile in Paris, returning to Mexico in 1870 after Juárez granted him amnesty. He died in "genteel poverty" in Mexico City in 1876.