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  2. Second French Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Second French Empire, [a] officially the French Empire, [b] was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte , president of France under the French Second Republic , who proclaimed himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.

  3. 1870s - Wikipedia

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    From left to right, clockwise: Conflict erupts between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia leading to the Franco-Prussian War in 1870; a fire in Chicago kills approximately 300 people and leaves about another 100,000 people homeless in 1871; Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise is recognized as the source of inspiration for the Impressionist movement; The U.S. Army is defeated by ...

  4. List of French possessions and colonies - Wikipedia

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    From the 16th to the 17th centuries, the First French colonial empire existed mainly in the Americas and Asia. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the second French colonial empire existed mainly in Africa and Asia. France had about 80 colonies throughout its history, the second most colonies in the world behind only the British Empire. [1]

  5. Political history of France - Wikipedia

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    The Second French Empire, officially the "French Empire," was an Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 14 January 1852 to 27 October 1870, between the Second and the Third Republic of France. The Second French Empire oversaw some of the most significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, and reasserted itself as the dominant ...

  6. List of empires - Wikipedia

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    First French Empire: 1804: 1815: 11 Second French Empire: 1852: 1870: 18 French Colonial Empire: 1534: 1980: 446 Francia: 481: 843: 362 Funan: 68: 550: 482 Gallic Empire: 260: 274: 14 Gaza Empire: 1824: 1895: 71 Genoese Republic: 1005: 1797: 792 German Colonial Empire: 1884: 1920: 36 German Empire (1848–1849) 1848: 1849: 1 German Empire: 1871 ...

  7. Late modern period - Wikipedia

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    The French Third Republic was the republican government of France between the end of the Second French Empire following the defeat of Louis-Napoléon in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 and the Vichy Regime after the invasion of France by the German Third Reich in 1940. The Third Republic endured seventy years, making it the most long-lasting ...

  8. Category:Second French Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Second French Empire (1852-1870) — the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III in France. Subcategories. This category has the following 9 subcategories ...

  9. Evolution of the French colonial empire - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] During the 19th and 20th centuries, the French colonial empire was the second largest colonial empire in the world only behind the British Empire; it extended over 13,500,000 km 2 (5,200,000 sq mi) [3] [4] of land at its height in the 1920s and 1930s. In terms of population however, on the eve of World War II, France and her colonial ...