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NAPOLEON III

Napoleon III was president of France from 1848 to 1852 and Emperor of France from 1852 to 1870. He was born in 1808 at Paris and died in 1873. He was the son of Louis Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, and of Hortense Beauharnais, daughter of Josephine Beauharnais. He was elected President of the French Republic in 1848, and in 1852 established an imperial government. From 1862 to 1867 he attempted to establish Archduke Maximilian on the Mexican throne. The demand of US Secretary of State Seward for the withdrawal of French troops from Mexico in 1866 was conceded by Napoleon III. During the American Civil War he inclined toward recognition of the independence of the Confederate States, but did not take that step.
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