Quantities of rifled cannon and shells are sent to New-Orleans and Pensacola in French bottoms; but LOUIS NAPOLEON is a great manufacturer of artillery, and has always a store from whence to lend ...

A six-bedroom mansion in the upmarket London neighbourhood of Mayfair where exiled French emperor Napoleon III was entertained in the mid 19th century is up for sale. The grand five-storey ...

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Following a new constitution that reduced the assembly’s power, and a plebiscite, Louis-Napoléon declared himself emperor Napoléon III in 1852 Louis-Napoleon, and thus the second empire was born.

and châteaux (Blois, Saint-Cloud, etc.). Briefly held up by the 1848 revolution, building works resumed at the request of Emperor Napoleon III. Once the structural works had been completed in 1853, ...