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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. Timeline of French history - Wikipedia

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    Second Opium War: British and French troops entered the Forbidden City in Beijing. 1866: 31 May: French intervention in Mexico: French troops start withdrawing from the country. 1870–1940: Third Republic: 1871: 10 May: The end of the Franco-Prussian War: France's loss marked the downfall of Napoleon III and led to the end of the Second French ...

  4. Siege of Paris (1870–1871) - Wikipedia

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    With the capture of Napoleon III, the Second French Empire collapsed and the Third French Republic was declared, provisionally led by the Government of National Defense. Despite German forces reaching and besieging Paris by 19 September 1870, the new French government advocated for the continuation of the war, leading to over four more months ...

  5. Category:Second French Empire - Wikipedia

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    The Second French Empire (1852-1870) — the Imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III in France. See also the preceding Category:French Second Republic and the succeeding Category:French Third Republic

  6. Paris during the Second Empire - Wikipedia

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    The new boulevards and parks built by Haussmann during the Second Empire. In 1853, Napoleon III assigned his new prefect of the Seine department, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, the task of bringing more water, air, and light into the city center, widening the streets to make traffic circulation easier, and making it the most beautiful city in Europe.

  7. Napoleon II - Wikipedia

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    Three years later, the First French Empire collapsed. Napoleon I saw his second wife and their son for the last time on 24 January 1814. [2] On 4 April 1814, he abdicated in favour of his three-year-old son after the Six Days' Campaign and the Battle of Paris. The child became Emperor of the French under the regnal name of Napoleon II. However ...

  8. French conquest of Vietnam - Wikipedia

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    The French conquest of Vietnam 1 (1858–1885) was a series of military expeditions that pitted the Second French Empire, later the French Third Republic, against the Vietnamese empire of Đại Nam in the mid-late 19th century.

  9. French Second Republic - Wikipedia

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    The French Second Republic (French: Deuxième république française or La II e République), officially the French Republic (République française), was the second republican government of France. It existed from 1848 until its dissolution in 1852.