Books: Farce of a mountebank continues to fascinate Napoleon III: A Life by Fenton Bresler HarperCollins pounds 24.99

The Independent - London | October 17, 1999| | Copyright

There can be two views about the great Napoleon Bonaparte, but ambivalence is not really an option when dealing with the contemptible mountebank Louis Napoleon, whom Victor Hugo memorably dubbed "Napoleon the little". In a famous essay on Louis Napoleon's coup of December 1851, when Louis aped his great forebear's seizure of power on 18 Brumaire and in the process broke the solemn oath he had sworn as president of the Second Republic, Marx made his well- known remark that history repeats itself, the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. But the farce continues to fascinate. Not so long ...

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