Sunday, April 20, 2025

Napoléon III's Birth Anniversary


 

Napoléon III, born on 20 April 1808, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was the first President of the French Republic, and the last monarch of France. Made president by popular vote in 1848, Napoleon III ascended to the throne on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of his uncle, Napoleon I’s coronation. He ruled as Emperor of the French until September 1870, when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War.

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