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Napoléon III
Napoléon III (20 April – 9 January ), also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was the first President of the French Republic and the last monarch of France.
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Made president by popular vote in , Napoleon III ascended to the throne on 2 December , the forty-eighth anniversary of his uncle, Napoleon I's, coronation. He ruled as Emperor of the French until September , when he was captured in the Franco-Prussian War.
Early life
[change | change source]Napoleon III, generally known as "Louis Napoléon" before he became emperor, was the son of Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoléon. His mother was Hortense de Beauharnais, the daughter by the first marriage of Napoleon's wife Josephine de Beauharnais.
Louis-Napoléon was a second son and a replacement child.[1] His older brother, Napoléon Charles Bonaparte, died at age four.[2] During Napoleon I's reign, Louis-Napoléon's parents had been made king and queen of a French puppet state, the Kingdom of Hol
