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Napoleon III, also called (until 1852) Louis-Napoléon, in full Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, (born April 20, 1808, Paris—died January 9, 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England), nephew of Napoleon I, president of the Second Republic of France (1850–52), and then emperor of the French (1852–70). He gave his country two decades of ...

Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon I, was emperor of France from 1852 to 1870. His downfall came during the Franco-Prussian War, when his efforts to defeat Otto Von Bismarck ended in his...

Napoléon III, also known as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (1808–1873) was the first President of the French Republic and the last monarch of France. Made president by popular vote in 1848, Napoleon III ascended to the throne on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of his uncle, Napoleon I 's, coronation.

Napoleon III, or Louis-Napoléon orig. Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, (born April 20, 1808, Paris, France—died Jan. 9, 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, Eng.), Emperor of France (1852–70). The nephew of Napoleon , he spent his youth in exile in Switzerland and Germany (1815–30).

Napoleon III dreamed of “opening new ways to commerce and new outlets to European products overseas,” of accelerating “the progress of Christianity and civilization.” He was therefore open to a colonial policy bent on furthering commercial interests and the establishment of bases.

In 1860 Napoleon III believed his regime to be stable enough to grant certain freedoms. The commercial treaty with Great Britain was to be the beginning of a new economic policy based on free-trade principles, with the aim of increasing prosperity and decreasing the cost of living.

Table of Contents. France - Napoleon III, Revolution, Unification: Posterity’s image of Napoleon III and his regime has not been uniform. Some historians have seen him as a shallow opportunist whose only asset was a glorious name.

Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the first president of France from 1848 to 1852, and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 until he was deposed in absentia on 4 September 1870.