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Prologue : Popguns at dawn -- Book one : The path to power. An uncertain paternity -- The Italian escapade -- Scandalous exile -- Fiasco at Boulogne -- Enter Miss Howard -- The miracle of '48 -- The prince-president -- Blood on the boulevards -- Book two : Imperial heyday. Cherchez la femme -- Eugenie's "bold game" -- The model marriage -- The empire means war -- An heir for the empire -- The bombs of Orsini -- To war again -- Problems with Plon-Plon -- Mexican adventure -- The distaff diplomat -- In love again -- The elegant Morny -- "The fair imperial harlot" -- Book three : Decline and fall. Disaster at Sadowa -- Retreat from Mexico -- Napoleon loosens his grip -- Bismarck baits the trap -- Into battle, unprepared -- Catastrophe at Sedan -- The end of empire -- Death in exile -- Postscript : The long twilight. |
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Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873.
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France -- Kings and rulers -- Biography.
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France -- History -- Second Empire, 1852-1870.
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| ISBN |
0312018274 |
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