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Louis-Napoleon

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Louis-Napoleon

Name by which Napoleon III was known.



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One of the best known examples is the way that Otto yon Bismarck, the "Iron Chancellor" of Prussia, provoked Louis-Napoleon, Emperor of France, to declare war on Prussia in 1870 and then immediately attack France with great success, which led to the annexation of Alsace-Lorraine and the founding of the German Empire.
Revolution Set the Stage for "Stars" Between the coups d'etat of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799 and of his nephew Louis-Napoleon fifty years later, Paris passed from the shining capital of a pan-European empire to a city overrun and occupied by foreign armies.
 
 
 
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