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Napoleon III
Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and the last monarch of France. He established the Second French Empire in 1852, which began a period of rapid industrialization and expansion of infrastructure in France and saw the rise of French influence in g…
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culture · Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870 · politician · writer · draftsperson · illustrator · also Napoleon III, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Charles-Louis-Napoléan, Emperor of the French Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléan, Emperor of the French Bonaparte, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, Louis Napoleon
Born 20 April 1808 · Died 9 January 1873 · Q7721
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2026· 6 entries
“The Empress is a Legitimist, Morny is an Orléanist, Prince Napoleon is a Republican, and I myself am a Socialist. There is only one Bonapartist, Persigny – and he is mad!”
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“make the sacrifice of your provinces in revolt and confide them to Victor Emmanuel”
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UCL | University College London: UCL History alumnus Edward Shawcross publishes new book on Napoleon III
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Xataka: En 1866, Napoleón III le dio a París su propio Internet: bajo tierra siguen enterrados 427 km de "cables" que nadie quiere retirar
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OkDiario: En 1857, Napoleón III ordenó a las ciudades francesas que desecaran un pantano y plantaran pinos; el result...
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2025· 1 entry
insider.si.edu: Napoleon III
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2020· 1 entry
The Conversation: How Napoléon III used photography as propaganda to hide the horror of his new Paris
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1879· 1 entry
Fighting against the Zulus in South Africa in the Anglo-Zulu War, Eugénie decided to build a monastery and a chapel for the remains of Napoleon III and their son
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1873· 2 entries
Died 1873-01-09.
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“Variant translation: It is usually the man who attacks. As for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate.”
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1871· 1 entry
Reportedly this had been ordered by Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, the so-called King of Araucanía and Patagonia
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1870· 4 entries
The French battleship D'Entrecasteaux anchored at Corral drawing suspicions from Cornelio Saavedra of some sort of French interference in the ongoing occupation of Mapuche lands
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On this text: "The people approve the liberal reforms added to the Constitution since 1860 by the Emperor, with the agreement of the legislative bodies and ratified by the Senate on April 20, 1870
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“you will chase away the threat of revolution; you will place the nation on a solid base of order and liberty, and you will make it easier to pass on the Crown to my son.”
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The possibility of an intervention in favour of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia against Chile was discussed in Napoleon's Conseil d'État
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1869· 2 entries
Patented a product he named oleomargarine, later shortened simply to margarine
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And became the model for the modern department store
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1868· 1 entry
Bismarck signed an accord with Russia that gave Russia liberty of action in the Balkans in exchange for neutrality in the event of a war between France and Prussia
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1867· 1 entry
French politician Adolphe Thiers (who became President of the French Republic in 1871) accused Napoleon III of erroneous foreign policy: "There is no mistake that can be made"
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1866· 4 entries
Prussia, with a population of 22 million, had been able to mobilize an army of 700,000 men, while France, with a population of 38 million, had an army of only 385,000 men, of whom 140,000 were in Algeria, Mexico, and Rom
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Added to this an "Edict of Tolerance" which gave factory workers the right to organise
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Encouraged the creation of a state insurance fund to help workers or peasants who became disabled and help their widows and families
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Relations between Austria and Prussia worsened and Bismarck demanded the expulsion of Austria from the German Confederation
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1865· 2 entries
Won Albert Medal (1865).
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The United States made clear that France would have to leave
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1864· 1 entry
At the military camp of Châlons-en-Champagne, he suffered the first medical crisis from his gallstones, the ailment that killed him nine years later
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1863· 3 entries
The jury of the Paris Salon, the famous annual showcase of French painting, headed by the ultra-conservative director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, Count Émilien de Nieuwerkerke, refused all submissions by avant-garde
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Established a protectorate over Cambodia
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Made Victor Duruy, the son of a factory worker and a respected historian, his new Minister of Public Education
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1862· 5 entries
Closed the prison which had occupied the Abbey of Mont-Saint-Michel since the French Revolution, where many important political prisoners had been held, so it could be restored and opened to the public
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Napoleon III sent troops to Mexico in an effort to establish an allied monarchy in the Americas, with Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria enthroned as Emperor Maximilian I
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“s restoration of the medieval town of Carcassonne. He also sponsored Viollet-le-Duc”
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Garibaldi gathered an army to march on Rome, under the slogan, "Rome or death"
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The first professional school for young women was opened, and Madeleine Brès became the first woman to enroll in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris
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1861· 1 entry
Through the direct intervention of the Emperor and the Empress, Julie-Victoire Daubié became the first woman in France to receive the baccalauréat diploma
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1860· 2 entries
To annex eleven communes (municipalities) on the outskirts of Paris and increase the number of arrondissements (city boroughs) from twelve to twenty
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After referendums, although it is disputed how fair they were
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1859· 1 entry
The remaining 1,800 prisoners and exiles were amnestied, with the exception of the republican leader Ledru-Rollin, who was released from prison but required to leave the country
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1858· 1 entry
Career landmark: pilgrimage.
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1856· 2 entries
The Emperor and Empress spent each September in Biarritz in the Villa Eugénie, a large villa overlooking the sea
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Eugénie gave birth to a son and heir-apparent, Napoléon, Prince Imperial
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1855· 3 entries
Awarded Knight Grand Cross of the Military Order of William (1855).
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Awarded Knight of the Order of the Elephant (1855).
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Completed the restoration, begun in 1845, of the stained-glass windows of the Sainte-Chapelle, and in 1862, he declared it a national historical monument
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1854· 1 entry
In the center of the city, Haussmann's workers tore down hundreds of old buildings and constructed new avenues to connect the central points of the city
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1853· 1 entry
Approved and provided funding for Viollet-le-Duc's restoration of the medieval town of Carcassonne
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1852· 5 entries
Which began a period of rapid industrialization and expansion of infrastructure in France and saw the rise of French influence in geopolitics after several decades of instability
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In a modest building and expanded rapidly, its income increasing from 450,000 francs a year to 20 million
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Over 40 percent of army conscripts in France were unable to read or write, yet by 1869, the number had dropped to 25 percent
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Napoleon encouraged the creation of new banks, such as Crédit Mobilier, which sold shares to the public and provided loans to both private industry and to the government
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Career landmark: Emperor of the French (1852–1870).
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1851· 5 entries
When he could not constitutionally be re-elected
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France and Britain cooperated in the 1850s with an alliance in the Crimean War and a major trade treaty in 1860
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France had only 3,500 kilometers of railway, compared with 10,000 kilometers in England and 800 kilometers in Belgium, a country one-twentieth the size of France
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Which restored a greater role for the Catholic Church in the French educational system
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Career landmark: head of government of France (1851–1870).
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1850· 1 entry
And the fortification of Cherbourg was strengthened
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1848· 3 entries
Career landmark: President of the French Republic (1848–1852).
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After the overthrow of the July Monarchy in the February Revolution, he was elected president of the French Second Republic
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Career landmark: French co-prince of Andorra (1848–1870).
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1846· 1 entry
When Prime Minister Robert Peel had lowered tariffs on imported grains, and he had seen the benefits to British consumers and the British economy
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1842· 2 entries
“I want to be a second Augustus, because Augustus [...] made Rome a city of marble.”
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Declared "I want to be a second Augustus, because Augustus [
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1839· 1 entry
Had written: "Government is not a necessary evil, as some people claim; it is instead the benevolent motor for the whole social organism
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1836· 1 entry
As it established him as heir to the Bonaparte legend and increased his publicity
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1833· 1 entry
At the age of 25, followed in 1834 by Considérations politiques et militaires sur la Suisse ("Political and military considerations about Switzerland"), followed in 1839 by Les Idées napoléoniennes ("Napoleonic Ideas"),
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1832· 1 entry
Louis Napoleon became the de facto heir of the dynasty and the leader of the Bonapartist cause
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1815· 2 entries
During the Hundred Days, France would rise up and join him
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A Bonapartist movement had existed in France, hoping to return a Bonaparte to the throne
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1808· 1 entry
Born 1808-04-20.
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1807· 1 entry
And—though separated and parents of a healthy second son, Napoléon Louis—they decided to have a third child
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