Napoleon III, Emperor of France

Visiting Paris with her sister and father , Anne Thackeray (later ATR ) saw Napoleon IIIriding down the Champs Élysées after the recent coup d'état.

QV and Prince Albert's state visit to Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie was the first visit to Paris by an English monarch since 1431.

It covers the state visit of Louis-Napoleon and Eugénie , and QV 's return visit to Paris with Albert .

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.

HM had begun contributing to the Edinburgh Review in 1858 with a piece attacking Napoleon III for reviving the slave trade. She continued these contributions until her illness forced her to end them in 1868....

CFC 's historical article History of the House of Savoy was published anonymously under her initials in The Westminster Review.

NL published another work of historical fiction, A Rose for Virtue: The Very Private Life of Hortense , Stepdaughter of Napoleon I , Mother of Napoleon III.

Jessie White (later JWM ) published her translation of the Italian revolutionary Felice Orsini 's graphic The Austrian Dungeons in Italy, which had not yet reached print.

As a character, Toussaint is highly idealised. He is distinguished from other slaves by lineage (an African royal grandfather like that of Behn 's Oroonoko before him), intelligence, self-education, and Christianity, as well...

She was prompted to move to South Africa when she learned that Empress Eugénie , widow of Napoleon III , would be travelling there to visit the grave of her son, who had been killed...

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...

GS met with Louis Napoléon to plead successfully for the release of political prisoners captured during his coup d'état.

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...

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...

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...