Napoleon III Emperor of France

Standard Name: Napoleon III,, Emperor of France
Used Form: Napoléon III
Used Form: Louis-Napoleon
Used Form: Louis Napoleon Bonaparte

Connections

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Friends, Associates Lucie Duff Gordon
While they were in Paris their visitors included philosopher and politician Victor Cousin , writers Alfred de Vigny , Jules Barthélemy Saint Hilaire , and Léon de Wailly , Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte , and...
Family and Intimate relationships Florence Dixie
The widowed mother of Lady Florence Douglas (later FD ) converted to Roman Catholicism and fled to Paris (and to the protection of the French Emperor ) with her younger children, lest their guardians should...
politics Florence Dixie
In her autobiographical novel The Story of Ijain, FD relates her awakening to the cruelty of power when in France she witnessed the ceremony of degradation, before a jeering crowd, of a soldier...
Friends, Associates Camilla Crosland
Her work for the annuals led to her connection with Lady Blessington and her niece Marguerite Power . Despite the disapproval of other friends she was a regular visitor to Blessington's home, Gore House...
Textual Production Caroline Frances Cornwallis
CFC 's historical article History of the House of Savoy was published anonymously under her initials in The Westminster Review.
This was a topical subject: two years after this Napoleon III was planning to...
Literary responses Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Critics were divided about the success of the poem, as was perhaps to be expected given EBB 's passionate embrace of Italian nationalism and her criticism of British foreign policy. The Guardian called it an...
Literary Setting Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The volume revolves around the events in Italy surrounding Napoleon III 's betrayal, in the treaty of Villafranca in July 1859, of allies in the Italian nationalist cause against Austria, but earlier poems are also...
Literary Setting Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Ishmael is set in Brittany and Paris, mainly between 1850 and 1867, during the reign of Louis Napoleon . The title character is the son of a Breton aristocrat, despised by his father on...
Textual Production Isa Blagden
IB died eleven days after the death of Napoléon III , whom she greatly admired; her last, somewhat illegible, lines of poetry were composed on the subject of his death.
Austin, Alfred, and Isa Blagden. “Memoir”. Poems, William Blackwood and Sons, 1873.
xix
Friends, Associates Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
To her many friends and visitors Lady Blessington soon added the exiled Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , John Forster , and in the early 1840s, Charles Dickens .
Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
340-1, 376, 419-0
After Louis Napoleon's escape...

Timeline

9 January 1873: Napoleon III died at Chislehurst in Engl...

National or international item

9 January 1873

Napoleon III died at Chislehurst in England.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
237
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
295

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