Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire

Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire PDF Author: John Bierman
Publisher: Abacus
ISBN: 9780747406235
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Book Description
A biography of Napoleon III who in 1852 became Emperor of France and inaugurated the Second Empire. It was a period of modernization and transformation in Paris, but the extravagance of his ideas finally weakened his system and he was outmanoeuvred by Bismarck in 1866.