Louis Napoleon

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Louis Napoleon (1808-1873), also known as Napoleon III or Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, was the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte who also ruled France.

Louis Napoleon or Napoleon III became President of the new Second Republic of France in 1848, after the failed revolutions of 1848. By 1852 he replaced the Republic with the Second Empire of France, and installed himself as its Emperor. He sought to accomplish an industrial modernization of France.

His weakness was in diplomacy and he was fooled by the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck into going to war with Germany over their border in 1870. The Germans quickly captured him and his army, and the Parisians soon deposed him. When he was finally released by the Germans he went to England in exile, where he died a few years later.

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