Napoleon III
1808–1873 · emperor of the French · France
Politics and power24 years old in 1832
Napoleon III was the first President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and the last monarch of France. He established the Second French Empire in 1852, which began a period of rapid industrialization and expansion of infrastructure in France and saw the rise of French influence in geopolitics after several decades of instability. As head of state of France for 22 years, he was the longest-reigning French head of state since the end of the Ancien régime.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Paris, 1870s
- Who governs
- The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
- Everyday life
- Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
- Arts and ideas
- The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
- Meanwhile
- Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.
Their life in their time
- 1808
- 18146 years old
- 183022 years old
- 184840 years old
- 185244 years old
- 185244 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
- 187062 years old
- 187365 years oldDies
Connected to
- VH
Victor Hugo · opponents
1852 Hugo went into exile under Napoleon III and attacked him in pamphlets such as Napoléon le Petit.
Source: wikipedia:Victor_Hugo
