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Louis Napoleon at the time of his failed coup in 1836 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Bonaparte, Charles Louis Napoléon
April 20, 1808 in Paris
†

January 9, 1873 in Chislehurst bei London
Paris, London

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Louis Napoleon at the time of his failed coup in 1836 (Source: Wikimedia)

Louis Napoleon launching his failed coup in Strasbourg in 1836 (Source: Wikimedia)

The Revolution of February 1848, which forced King Louis Philippe I to abdicate, opened the way for Louis Napoleon to return to France and to run for the National Assembly. (Source: Wikimedia)

Louis Napoleon as a member of the National Assembly in 1848. He spoke rarely in the Assembly, but, because of his name, had enormous popularity in the country. (Source: Wikimedia)

Louis Napoleon captured 74.2 percent of votes cast in the first French direct presidential elections in 1848. (Source: Wikimedia)

Silver coin: 5 franc, 1852, Under Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as president (Source: Wikimedia)

Silver coin: 5 franc, 1870, Under Emperor Napoleon III (Source: Wikimedia)

Adolphe Thiers (1797–1877), leader of the conservative republicans in the National Assembly, reluctantly supported Louis Napoleon in the 1848 elections and became his bitter opponent during the Second Republic. (Source: Wikimedia)

François-Vincent Raspail, leader of the left wing of the socialist deputies in the Second Republic, who led an attempt to overthrow Louis Napoleon's government in March 1849. He was imprisoned, but Napoleon III commuted his imprisonment to an exile and he was allowed back into France in 1862. (Source: Wikimedia)

Daguerreotype of Napoleon III c. 1850–1855 (Source: Wikimedia)

D'Allonville's cavalry patrolled Paris during Napoleon's 1851 coup. Three to four hundred people were killed in street fighting after the coup d'état. (Source: Wikimedia)

A caricature of Victor Hugo by Honoré Daumier from July 1849. Hugo supported Louis Napoleon in the election for president, but after the coup d'état went into exile and became his most relentless and eloquent enemy. (Source: Wikimedia)

The Prince-President in 1852, after the coup d'état (Source: Wikimedia)

Photograph of Louis Napoleon (1852) by Gustave Le Gray (Source: Wikimedia)

Portrait of Napoleon III, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, c. 1850s (Source: Wikimedia)

The Gare de Lyon and Gare du Nord railway stations in Paris were built under Napoleon III. During his reign, the railway network of France expanded from 3 500 kilometres to 20 000 kilometres. (Source: Wikimedia)

Among the commercial innovations encouraged by Napoleon III were the first department stores. Bon Marché opened in 1852, followed by Au Printemps in 1865. (Source: Wikimedia)

Enormous public works projects reconstructed the center of Paris. Here, work to extend the Rue de Rivoli continues at night by electric light (1854). (Source: Wikimedia)

Camille Pissarro, Avenue de l'Opéra, one of the new boulevards created by Napoleon III. The new buildings on the boulevards were required to be all of the same height and same basic facade design, and all faced with cream coloured stone, giving the city center its distinctive harmony. (Source: Wikimedia)

Empress Eugénie in 1853, after her marriage to Napoleon III, by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon III and Abdelkader El Djezairi, the Algerian military leader who led a struggle against the French invasion of Algeria (Source: Wikimedia)

The French landing near Yevpatoria, Crimea, 1854 (Source: Wikimedia)

The French capture of Russian positions around Sevastopol brought the end of the Crimean War. (Source: Wikimedia)

The Battle of Malakoff, 8 September 1855 (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon III in 1855 (Source: Wikimedia)

Napoleon III with the French forces at the Battle of Solferino, which secured the Austrian withdrawal from Italy. He was horrified by the casualties and ended the war soon after the battle. (Source: Wikimedia)

Cousin-Montauban leading French forces during the Anglo-French expedition to China (Source: Wikimedia)

Arrival of Marshal Randon in Algiers in 1857 (Source: Wikimedia)

French capture of Gia Dinh (modern Saigon), 17 February 1859 (Source: Wikimedia)

Second French intervention in Mexico, 1861–1867 (Source: Wikimedia)

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Sohn von Louis Napoléon Bonaparte und dessen Frau Hortense de Beauharnais; 1848 bis 1852 französischer Staatspräsident, 1852 bis 1870 Kaiser von Frankreich

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