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

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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...
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
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 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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 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
Textual Production Norah Lofts
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.
Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes.
80
Residence Maria Theresa Longworth
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...
Textual Production Jessie White Mario
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.
Orsini was later executed after making an...

Timeline

10 December 1848: By an overwhelming majority, the French elected...

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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: 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

January 1853: Following Napoleon III's marriage to Eugénie...

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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

27 February 1854: Napoleon III and the British government jointly...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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