French Second Republic
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The French Second Republic, officially the French Republic, was the second republican formation of the government of France. The republic existed from 1848, when the monarchy fell, until its dissoluti
Revolutionaries storming the Chamber of Deputies on 24 February
The members of the Provisional Government of 1848
Barricades on rue Faubourg-du-Temple, 25 June 1848. These are the first barricades ever photographed
The chamber of the National Assembly of the Second Republic, in 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
French Second Republic
…of France. The republic existed from 1848, when the monarchy fell, until its dissolution only four years later in 1852 upon the proclamation of the Second French Empire. Following the final defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at the Battle of Waterloo, in June 1815, France had been reconstituted into a monarchy known as 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