History & Society
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Also known as: Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon
Category:
History & Society
- Also called (until 1852):
- Louis-Napoléon
- In full:
- Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
- Born:
- April 20, 1808, Paris
- Title / Office:
- emperor (1852-1871), France
- president (1851-1852), France
- president (1848-1850), France
- Political Affiliation:
- Bonapartist
- House / Dynasty:
- Bonaparte family
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Napoleon III (born April 20, 1808, Paris—died January 9, 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England) was the nephew of Napoleon I, president of the Second Republic of France (1850–52), and then emperor of the French (1852–70). He gave his country two decades of prosperity under a stable, authoritarian government but finally led it to defeat in the Franco-German War (1870–71). He was the third son of Napoleon I’s brother Louis Bonaparte, who was king of Holland from 1806 to 1810, and his wife, Hortense de Beauharnais Bonaparte, stepdaughter of Napoleon I. Louis-Napoléon’s childhood and youth were spent largely in exile. His mother, ...(100 of 2880 words)