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Figaro Histoire “Napoleon III, impostor or visionary?”.
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"Napoleon III, impostor or visionary?"
Le Figaro History
What did the French economic boom under the Second Empire owe to Napoleon III?
In a regime as personal and vertical as the Second Empire, everything goes through the sovereign.
The prerogatives that the Constitution of January 14, 1852 grants to President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte the day after his coup d'etat are already greater than those enjoyed by his uncle Napoleon Bonaparte under the Consulate and are further increased during the transition to the Empire. , in December 1852, particularly in economic matters.
It must be said that the subject has been close to his heart for a very long time.
He reached manhood at the end of the 1820s, when France was industrializing and when the "social question" was born, that is to say the problems linked to the uprooting of rural people who came to work. in large manufactories and factories located in or near cities…
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