Napoleon III
Napoleon III (or Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte ) ( 1808 – 73 )Emperor of the French ( 1852 – 70 ). He was the third son of Hortense de Beauharnais stepdaughter of Napoleon I and Louis Bonaparte ( 1778 – 1846 ), brother of Napoleon I and King of Holland ( 1806 – 10 ). After the fall of Napoleon I, Napoleon III began a long period of exile in Switzerland. On the death of Napoleon I's only son, the Roi de Rome, in 1832 , he became Bonapartist pretender to the French throne and twice attempted to...
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