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    Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch...
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    Impérial - La vie quotidienne sous le Second Empire, (1990), Armand Colin, (ISBN 2-200-37226-4) Pinkney, David H. Napoleon III and the Rebuilding of Paris...
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    has renamed it "General-de-Gaulle Avenue". On July 21, 1858, Emperor Napoleon III and Camille Benso, Count of Cavour, President of the Council of the Kingdom...
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    Provence by taking a route through the Alps, marked today as the Route Napoléon. Firing no shot in his defence, his troop numbers swelled until they became...
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    Constitution of the Year VIII (category Napoleon)
    consulate. Napoléon proceeded to compose, alongside Sieyès, a new constitution aiming to assure a strong executive power, concentrated in Napoleon's hands...
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    indecisive strategic planning. The army, including MacMahon and Emperor Napoleon III, surrendered to the Germans. Thus France lost the war and the Emperor...
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    overwhelming approval for the liberal reforms initiated by Napoleon III in the May 8 plebiscite, with over 7 million votes in favor. On June 30, the Emperor's...
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    signatures. The duchy was reunited after a plebiscite organised on 22 and 23 April 1860 under Napoleon III, in which 99.8 percent of the Savoyards voting...
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    Pacific Historical Review 13.2 (1944): 151-167 online. Pierre Milza, Napoléon III (in French, Paris: 2006), pp. 626–636 Arthur J. Dommen, The Indochinese...
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    ISBN 978-2262024321. Leanca, Gabriel (2011). La politique extérieure de Napoléon III (in French). Paris: L'Harmattan. p. 10. ISBN 9782296555426. Céline Lambert...
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