Napoleon III
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Napoleon III was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first elected president, second emperor, and last monarch of Fr
The lakeside house at Arenenberg, Switzerland, where Louis Napoleon spent much of his youth and exile
Etching portrait of Louis Napoleon at the time of his failed coup in 1836
Louis Napoleon launching his failed coup in Strasbourg in 1836
July Monarchy
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The July Monarchy, officially the Kingdom of France, was a liberal constitutional monarchy in France under Louis Philippe I, starting on 9 August 1830, with the revolutionary victory in the July Revol
Liberty Leading the People (1830) by Eugène Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution of 1830. The child with two pistols to the right of Liberty (who holds the tricolor flag) would be Victor Hugo's inspiration for Gavroche in Les Misérables.[citation needed]
Portrait of Louis Philippe I by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1841. The Louis Philippe I, King of the French, is depicted at the entrance of the Gallerie des batailles which he had furnished in the Château de Versailles.
Silver five-franc coin featuring Louis Philippe
Donjon of the Château de Vincennes, where Charles X's ministers were detained