Molloy, Joseph Fitzgerald. The Most Gorgeous Lady Blessington. 4th ed., Downey, 1896.
340-1, 376, 419-0
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
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Ouida | Ouida
's father, Louis Ramé
—he was originally from France—had moved in the 1830s to Bury St Edmunds, where he taught French intermittently. He was rumoured, though without conclusive evidence, to have been a... |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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
. |
| 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... |
| Health | Harriet Hamilton King | She writes that her health suffered greatly from dwelling so intensely on such a painful topic; and I had the sensation strongly that I was being dragged down to the grave by Orsini
, 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 responses | Jessie White Mario | After the inaugural lecture, the New York Herald called her words very chaste and poetical and her enunciation clear and distinct. qtd. in Daniels, Elizabeth Adams. Jessie White Mario: Risorgimento Revolutionary. Ohio University Press, 1972. 75 |
| Literary Setting | Harriet Hamilton King | The first part of the collection concerns Giuseppe Garibaldi
, Felice Orsini
(whose assassination attempt on Napoleon III
it defends), and the cause the author herself had fervently embraced: that of Italian nationalism. Miles, Alfred H., editor. The Poets and the Poetry of the Nineteenth Century. AMS Press, 1967, 12 vols. 82 King, Harriet Hamilton. Aspromonte and Other Poems. Macmillan, 1869. vii |
| 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... |
| 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 | Harriet Martineau | Certainly the plot drags, the characterisation is wooden, and the book is weighed down by ponderous speeches. In the opening domestic scene, Toussaint's son is helped to read the word Epictetus
on the spine of... |
| 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... |
| politics | Mary Russell Mitford | In politics MRM
was known as a Foxite: that is, she supported the Whigs under Charles James Fox
, the more progressive opposition to the government. On 17 June 1814 she attended an Abolitionist meeting... |
| politics | George Sand | GS
met with Louis Napoléon
to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état. Jack, Belinda. George Sand: A Woman’s Life Writ Large. Vintage, 2001. 324-6 |
Timeline
10 December 1848: By an overwhelming majority, the French elected...
National or international item
10 December 1848
By an overwhelming majority, the French elected Louis Napoleon
(the nephew of the Emperor) under the slogan No more taxes, down with the rich, down with the Republic, long live the Emperor.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
40
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
39-40
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
147
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
192
2 December 1851: A coup d'état by Louis Napoleon abolished...
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2 December 1851
A coup d'état by Louis Napoleon
abolished the Republic of France.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
149
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
200-01
1 December 1852: After a year as President of France, Louis...
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1 December 1852
After a year as President of France, Louis Napoleon
proclaimed the Second Empire, becoming Emperor Napoleon III.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
222
Chisholm, Hugh, editor. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eleventh, Cambridge University Press, 1911.
January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...
Building item
January 1853
Following Napoleon III
's marriage to Eugénie de Montijo
, English female hairstyles followed the fashionable French example.
Adburgham, Alison. A Punch History of Manners and Modes 1841-1940. Hutchinson, 1961.
43, 54
January 1853: Napoleon III married Eugénie de Montijo,...
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January 1853
Napoleon III
married Eugénie de Montijo
, daughter of a Spanish nobleman.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
227
27 February 1854: Napoleon III and the British government jointly...
National or international item
27 February 1854
Napoleon III
and the British government jointly sent an ultimatum to Russia requiring the withdrawal of Russian forces from the Danubian Principalities.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
205
1855: When Napoleon III and his wife, the Empress...
National or international item
1855
When Napoleon III
and his wife, the Empress Eugénie
, visited Queen Victoria
, Eugénie brought the first crinoline to England with her.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
227
January 1858: In an unsuccessful assassination attempt,...
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January 1858
In an unsuccessful assassination attempt, Felice Orsini
, a follower of Mazzini
, threw a bomb at the carriage of Napoleon III
and Eugénie
as they made their way to the Opera House in Paris.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
229
July 1858: Napoleon III and Cavour met secretly at Plombières...
National or international item
July 1858
Napoleon III
and Cavour
met secretly at Plombières in the Vosges to plot war against Austria.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
229
July 1859: Napoleon III of France and Francis Joseph...
National or international item
July 1859
Napoleon III
of France and Francis Joseph of Austria
signed the Treaty of Villafranca.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
230, 234
1867: English and French proposals for an English...
National or international item
1867
English and French proposals for an English Channel tunnel were submitted to Napoleon III
.
Bruno, Leonard. On the Move: A Chronology of Advances in Transportation. Gale Research, 1993.
114
19 July 1870: Napoleon III declared war on Prussia, initiating...
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19 July 1870
Napoleon III
declared war on Prussia, initiating the Franco-Prussian War.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
92, 97
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
257
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
202
Millman, Richard. British Foreign Policy and the Coming of the Franco-Prussian War. Clarendon, 1965.
194
Raymond, Dora Neill. British Policy and Opinion During the Franco-Prussian War. AMS, 1967.
66
Carr, William. The Origins of the Wars of German Unification. Longman, 1991.
205-6
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
292, 294
Dupuy, R. Ernest, and Trevor N. Dupuy. The Encyclopedia of Military History: From 3500 B.C. to the Present. 2nd ed., Jane’s, 1986.
832, 837
31 August 1870: In the course of the Franco-Prussian war,...
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31 August 1870
In the course of the Franco-Prussian war, Napoleon III
was captured at Sedan; the establishment of the Third Republic followed in France.
Hobsbawm, Eric John. The Age of Capital 1848-1875. Abacus, 1975.
91
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
236, 254, 257
Cowie gives the date of Napoleon's capture as September 1870.
4 September 1870: When a Paris mob proclaimed the Third Republic,...
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4 September 1870
When a Paris mob proclaimed the Third Republic, the Legislative Chamber of France established a provisional Government of National Defence.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
286
Merriman, John M. “Contested Freedoms in the French Revolutions, 1830-1871”. Revolution and the Meanings of Freedom in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Isser Woloch, Stanford University Press, 1996, pp. 173-11.
175
20 September 1870: The Italian army entered Rome; on 2 October...
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20 September 1870
The Italian army entered Rome; on 2 October the army declared Rome the capital of the newly unified kingdom of Italy.
Cowie, Leonard W., and Leonard Woolfson. Years of Nationalism: European History 1815-1890. Edward Arnold, 1985.
274
Palmer, Alan, and Veronica Palmer. The Chronology of British History. Century, 1992.
292
Corey, Melinda, and George Ochoa, editors. The Encyclopedia of the Victorian World. Henry Holt and Company, 1996.
241-2
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