Napoleon III | Biography, Emperor, Family & Death
Napoleon III (born April 20, 1808, in Paris, and died on January 9, 1873, in Chislehurst near London) was born as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte he was the Second Republic French President from 1848 to 1852 and Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870.With the coup d'état on December 2, 1851, the president, who emerged from a popular election, had a dictatorship built. A year later he proclaimed himself emperor and his country the second empire. Parliament was largely disempowered and only gained a little more power at the end of its reign.Due to the plebiscitary character of his reign, the emperor was practically forced to show new successes in order to maintain the favor of the masses. This led to a relatively expansionary foreign policy, which also pursued the goal of expanding...