Napoleon III

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Louis NapoleonCharles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, [loo, -ee, lwee] 1808–73, president of France 1848–52, emperor of France 1852–70 (nephew of Napoleon I).

Napoleon III

Napoleon III18081873MFrenchPOLITICS: hereditary ruler full name Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, known as Louis-Napoleon. 1808–73, Emperor of the French (1852–70); nephew of Napoleon I. He led two abortive Bonapartist risings (1836; 1840) and was elected president of the Second Republic (1848), establishing the Second Empire in 1852. Originally successful in foreign affairs, he was deposed after the disastrous Franco-Prussian War

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He quickly made a name for himself among the French aristocracy; among his patrons was Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

Within five years, his pain-reducing services secured him the job of official court dentist to Emperor Louis Napoleon III.

Napoleon III was even more rash in his assumption that after all the new world had fallen before the old.

Napoleon III reigned only yesterday, but his picture is already painted in different tints.

Napoleon III was a socialist, so that it was possible to come to an understanding.

Napoleon III had no further deeds of arms to record, so the intended parallel series was never accomplished.

Napoleon III, like his far more distinguished uncle, was a usurper.

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