The complete guide to elegant France: Second Empire France Without the vision of Napoleon III and his planner Baron Haussmann in the 19th century, Paris would not be the city we know today. But the influence of the Second Empire spread beyond the architecture of the French capital.

The Independent - London | October 12, 2002| | Copyright

WHEN WAS THE SECOND EMPIRE - AND WHAT WAS SO SIGNIFICANT ABOUT IT?

Exactly 150 years ago, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, French President since 1848, was following in the footsteps of his better-known uncle and organising a plebiscite to validate his 1851 coup d'etat: by the beginning of December 1852, he'd been declared Emperor. Between 1851 and 1870, when the Second Empire ended in humiliating defeat with the loss of Alsace-Lorraine to Bismarck's Germany, and Napoleon III's exile and rapid demise in Kent, the Paris - and France - we know today took shape. Industrial prosperity fuelled the ...

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