Napoléon III (in French)

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He was the son of a king (Louis Bonaparte), the nephew of an emperor (Napoleon I), a conspirator (Rome, Strasbourg and Boulogne), a prisoner (in the fort de Ham), a proscript, the first president of the French Republic (1848), and the last reigning sovereign of France.
 
Napoleon III was a major figure of the 19th century and the embodiment of diversity: a thinker and yet a man of action, a romantic and yet a realist, an autocratic democrat, an authoritarian liberal, a progressive reactionary, a son of the church and child of the Revolution, an apostle of peace and bringer of war.
The child of whom Napoleon I prophetically remarked in 1815, «he perhaps the future of my family», was complex and long misunderstood. He has always been the subject of lively debate. Victor Hugo famously called him 'Napoleon the Small' and described him as a 'foul dwarf', and Pasteur considered his reign as one of the most glorious all time.
 
Who was the real Napoleon III?
 
About the author
Eric Anceau teaches history at Paris-Sorbonne and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (Science Po') de Paris. He is considered to be one of best connoisseurs of French 19th-century history. (In French)
 
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