Antoine Sénard
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Antoine Marie Jules Sénard was a French lawyer and politician who was briefly President of the Constituent Assembly of the French Second Republic. After returning to private practice during the Second
Portrait from Victor Duruy, Histoire populaire contemporaine de la France (1865)
Caricature of Antoine Sénard (center) and Joseph Degousée (right) by Cham
Louis Eugène Cavaignac, 1848
Second French Empire
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The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the
The official declaration of the Second Empire, at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris on 2 December 1852
The Avenue de l'Opéra, one of the new boulevards created by Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann
The French landing near Yevpatoria, Crimea, then part of the Russian Empire, 1854
Arrival of Marshal Randon in Algiers, French Algeria, 1857