The first biography for twenty years of Napoleon Bonaparte's nephew, who became President of France in 1848 and assumed the title of Emperor in 1852, presiding over the glittering years of the Second Empire and the grandiloquent rebuilding of Paris. By the early 1860s he was the most powerful man in Europe. Prince Louis Napoleon was born with a compelling sense of destiny. The eldest nephew of Bonaparte, he came from exile and ignominy to rule France, first as President then as Emperor for 22 years, from 1848 to 1870. Under his benevolent dictatorship, the nation grew in artistic fulfilment, industrial wealth and international influence - until catastrophic defeat at the hands of Bismarck in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 cast her back into the shadows. Subsequently, with his wife the Empress Eugenie, Napoleon III went into exile in Chislehurst, Kent, until his death in 1873. (His widow was not to die till 1920.) There is now a movement in France to retrieve his ashes from their mausoleum in Farnborough and bring them back to France. Napoleon III was, according to Queen Victoria, 'endowed with wonderful self-control and with a power of fascination, the effect of which upon all those who became more intimately acquainted with him is most sensibly felt.' He was brave in battle and a compulsive womaniser; one of the only two really great loves of his life was Harriet Howard, an English true-life equivalent of Violetta, the courtesan heroine of Verdi's La Traviata.

Napoleon III: A Life

BRESLER, Fenton

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins

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Interpol

Penguin Books Canada, Limited

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Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

St Martins Pr

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Severn House Publishers

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A biography of the French president turned emperor discusses his empire-building, his role in creating the Italian nation, his many public works projects, and his eventual defeat by the Prussians

Historical

Carroll & Graf Pub.

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Napoleon III: A Life

Interpol

Who Killed John Lennon?

Who Killed John Lennon?

Mystery of Georges Simenon

An Almanac of Murder

The Murder of John Lennon

Napoleon III: A Life

The Mystery of Georges Simenon: A Biography

The Mystery of Georges Simenon: A Biography