Napoleon III of France

Charles Louis Napol?on Bonaparte (20 April 1808, Paris, France - 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England) was a President of France, and later, Emperor of the French.

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Bonaparte was the son of Hortense de Beauharnais, who was the daughter of Josephine de Beauharnais and, thus, the stepdaughter of Napoleon Bonaparte. The identity of his biological father remains a subject of speculation, given his unhappily married mother's record of extramarital liaisons. The father of record, however, was Hortense's husband, Louis Bonaparte, a younger brother of Napoleon. The couple had been made king and queen of a French puppet state, the Kingdom of Holland. During his youth, he was a member of the Carbonari, a resistance organization fighting Austrian domination of Northern Italy. This would later have an effect on his foreign policy.

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Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie c.1865	Napoleon III (1808-73) Welcoming Queen Victoria (1819-1901) at the Port of Boulogne	Armchair Napoleon Iii Covered with Yellow Silk Damask	Portrait of Napoleon III 1852
Apotheosis of Napoleon III 1854	Napoleon Iii and Bismarck after the Battle of Sedan 1882	Portrait of Napoleon III	The Emperor Napoleon III and the Empress Eugenie Visiting the Chaillot Hill
Caricature of Napoleon III	King Henri III (1551-89) of France Visiting Venice in 1574 Escorted by Doge Alvise Mocenigo	The Attempted Assassination of Emperor Napoleon III by Felice Orsini on the 14th January 1858 1862	Portrait of Emperor Louis Napoleon III