and later crowned himself emperor as Napoleon III – seized on this when he reintroduced universal male suffrage after conservative elites had restricted the vote to the propertied. But there ...

It is a fact that Franz Joseph did fight against Napoleon III during the Second Italian War of Independence but he returned ...

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 ...

To the Editor of the New-York Times: Interests of overshadowing import are culminating around Louis NAPOLEON, as Emperor of the great French nation, with startling rapidity and force. The astute ...

The total value of an artist’s artworks sold at auction over a specific period. This metric reflects the artist’s overall market activity and demand in monetary terms. The middle value of all realized ...

Napoleon wanted his work to endure forever, so he appointed himself Emperor. Why would becoming an emperor make his work live long after he was gone? Once students have finished viewing and ...

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, ...