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Louis Napoleon Bonaparte,was born in 1808 and died in 1873. He was elected President of France in 1848 then he was made emperor of France from 1852 to 1871. He was the nephew of Napoleon I. He ultimately came to power after the February Revolution of 1848. He was elected to the National Assembly, and defeated Gen. L.E. Cavaignac in the presidential election by a wide margin. Louis Napoleon's success was due largely to his name. As president of the Second Republic, he consolidated powerful conservative support and instigated the coup of Dec. 3, 1851. The legislative assembly was dissolved, and an attempted workers' uprising was brutally suppressed. |