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April 17, 2024 | History

Napoleon III and his carnival empire

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Louis Napoleon, nephew to the famous Bonaparte, is one of the most colorful historical actors of the nineteenth century. Bohemian, adventurer, and compulsive Don Juan, he managed, to the astonishment of virtually everyone, to be elected President of France in 1848 and within three years staged the coup d'etat that made him Emperor. Reigned over by this genial roue and his beautiful Empress Eugenie, the splendid circus known as the Second Empire was one of the most glittering and licentious epochs in French history -- a time when the music of Offenbach, the gowns of Worth, and the splendid new boulevards of Haussmann brought Paris world renown as the City of Light. - Jacket flap.

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St. Martin's Press
Language
English
Pages
439

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Cover of: Napoleon III and his carnival empire
Napoleon III and his carnival empire
1990, Cardinal
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Napoleon III and His Carnival Empire
1989, St. Martin's Press
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Napoleon III and his carnival empire
1989, Murray
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Napoleon III and his carnival empire
1988, St. Martin's Press
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Table of Contents

Prologue : Popguns at dawn
Book one : The path to power. An uncertain paternity
The Italian escapade
Scandalous exile
Fiasco at Boulogne
Enter Miss Howard
The miracle of '48
The prince-president
Blood on the boulevards
Book two : Imperial heyday. Cherchez la femme
Eugenie's "bold game"
The model marriage
The empire means war
An heir for the empire
The bombs of Orsini
To war again
Problems with Plon-Plon
Mexican adventure
The distaff diplomat
In love again
The elegant Morny
"The fair imperial harlot"
Book three : Decline and fall. Disaster at Sadowa
Retreat from Mexico
Napoleon loosens his grip
Bismarck baits the trap
Into battle, unprepared
Catastrophe at Sedan
The end of empire
Death in exile
Postscript : The long twilight

Edition Notes

Bibliography: p. 411-415.
Includes index.

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
944.07/092/4, B
Library of Congress
DC280 .B53 1988, DC280.B53 1988

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xx, 439 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
439
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL2406697M
Internet Archive
napoleoniiihisca00bier_0
ISBN 10
0312018274
ISBN 13
9780312018276
LCCN
87038236
OCLC/WorldCat
17413741
Library Thing
464207
Goodreads
727585

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