Napoleon III

Napoléon III (Charles Louis Napoléon; 20 April 1808 - 9 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew of Napoleon I, he was the last monarch to rule over France. Elected to the presidency of the Second Republic in 1848, he seized power by force in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be reelected; he later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French. He founded the Second Empire, reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by Prussia and its allies at the Battle of Sedan in 1870. Napoleon III was a popular monarch, who oversaw the modernisation of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire and made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, engaged in the Second Italian War of Independence as well as the disastrous Franco-Prussian War, in which he commanded his soldiers during the fight and was captured.

Issue

 * 1) Napoléon Eugène Louis Jean Joseph Bonaparte, Prince Imperial o Fraunce (16 Mairch 1856 – 1 June 1879) died in the Anglo-Zulu War unmarried and had no known isue.

Titles and styles

 * 20 April 1808 – 9 July 1810: His Imperial and Royal Highness Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince of Holland
 * 20 April 1808 – 25 July 1846: His Imperial Highness Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, Prince Imperial of France
 * 20 December 1848 – 2 December 1852: His Excellency Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic ("fr: Le Prince-President")
 * 2 December 1852 – 4 September 1870: His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of the French
 * 4 September 1870 – 9 January 1873: His Imperial Majesty the former Emperor of the French

Honours
National
 * Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, 1848
 * Médaille militaire, 1852
 * Commemorative medal of the 1859 Italian Campaign

Foreign

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 * Knight of the Order of the Annunciation, 13 July 1849
 * Grand Cross of the Military Order of Savoy, 28 September 1855
 * Gold Medal of Military Valor, 1859
 * Holy See: Grand Cross of the Order of Pope Pius IX, 1849
 * Tuscany: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Joseph, 1850
 * 🇪🇸 Spain: Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece, 17 September 1850
 * Grand Duchy of Hesse: Grand Cross of the Ludwig Order, 18 July 1852
 * undefined:
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Tower and Sword, 3 August 1852
 * Grand Cross of the Sash of the Three Orders, 7 October 1854
 * Grand Cross of the Order of St. James of the Sword, 3 April 1865
 * undefined: Knight of the Order of the Rue Crown, 29 December 1852
 * undefined: Grand Cross of the Order of the Southern Cross, 23 March 1853
 * undefined: Knight of the Order of St. Hubert, 22 September 1853
 * Mexico:
 * Mexican Republic: Grand Cross of the Order of Guadalupe, 12 January 1854
 * Mexican Empire: Grand Cross of the Order of the Mexican Eagle, with Collar, 1 January 1865
 * 🇧🇪 Belgium: Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold, 15 February 1854
 * Ernestine duchies: Grand Cross of the Saxe-Ernestine House Order, 1 March 1854
 * undefined: Grand Cross of the Order of St. Stephen, 1854
 * Two Sicilies: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Ferdinand and of Merit, 1854
 * undefined: Knight of the Order of the Garter, 18 April 1855
 * 🇩🇰 Denmark: Knight of the Order of the Elephant, 2 August 1855
 * 🇳🇱 Netherlands: Grand Cross of the Military William Order, 13 September 1855
 * 🇸🇪 🇳🇴 Sweden-Norway:
 * Knight of the Order of the Seraphim, 10 October 1855
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Sword, 1st Class, 26 August 1861
 * Ottoman Empire:
 * Order of the Medjidie, 1st Class, 1855
 * Order of Osmanieh, 1st Class, in Diamonds, 1862
 * Baden:
 * Knight of the House Order of Fidelity, 17 April 1856
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion, 17 April 1856
 * Prussia:
 * Knight of the Order of the Black Eagle, 8 June 1856
 * Grand Cross of the Order of the Red Eagle, 8 June 1856
 * Württemberg: Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown, 1856
 * undefined:
 * Knight of the Order of St. Andrew, 11 June 1856
 * Knight of the Order of St. Alexander Nevsky, 11 June 1856
 * Knight of the Order of the White Eagle, 11 June 1856
 * Knight of the Order of St. Anna, 1st Class, 11 June 1856
 * Persia: Grand Cross of the Order of the Lion and the Sun, 1856
 * Hesse-Kassel: Knight of the Order of the Golden Lion, 10 January 1858
 * Nassau: Knight of the Order of the Golden Lion of Nassau, 2 May 1858
 * undefined:
 * Knight of the Order of St. George, 1860
 * Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order
 * Tunisia: Husainid Family Order, 17 September 1860
 * Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach: Grand Cross of the Order of the White Falcon, 14 November 1860
 * Greece: Grand Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, 1863
 * Honduras: Grand Cross of the Order of Santa Rosa and of Civilization, 1869
 * 🇲🇨 Monaco: Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Charles, 1869