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Napoléon III, born Charles Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte lived in Great Britain until the revolution of February 1848 in France deposed Louis-Philippe and established a Republic.when the constitution of the French Second Republic was finally promulgated and direct elections for the presidency were held on 10 December 1848, Louis-Napoléon won in a landslide, with 5,454,000 votes (around 75% of the total); his closest rival, Louis Eugène Cavaignac, received 1,448,000 votes. Louis-Napoleon had no long political career behind him and was able to depict himself as “all things to all men”. Despite his landslide victory, Louis-Napoléon was faced with a Parliament dominated by monarchists, who saw his government only as a temporary bridge to a restoration of either the House of Bourbon or of Orléans. Louis-Napoleon governed cautiously during his first years in office, choosing his ministers from among the more “centre-right” Orleanist monarchists, and generally avoiding conflict with the conservative assembly. In the third year of his four-year mandate, President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte asked the National Assembly for a revision of the constitution to enable the president to run for re-election, arguing that four years were not enough to implement his political and economic program fully. The Constitution of the Second Republic stated that the Presidency of the Republic was to be held for a single term of four years, with no possibility of re-election, a restriction written in the Constitution for fear that a President would abuse his power to transform the Republic into a dictatorship or a sort of life-Presidency. The National Assembly, dominated by monarchists who wished to restore the Bourbon dynasty, refused to amend the Constitution. After months of stalemate, he staged a coup d’état and seized dictatorial powers on 2 December 1851, the 47th anniversary of Napoléon I’s crowning as Emperor, and also the 46th anniversary of the famous Battle of Austerlitz (hence another of Louis-Napoleon’s nicknames: “The Man of December”, “l’homme de Décembre”). The coup was later declared to have been approved by the French people in a national referendum whose fairness and legality have been questioned ever since. Exactly one year later, on 2 December 1852, after approval by another referendum, the Second Republic was officially ended and the Empire restored, ushering in the Second French Empire. President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte became Emperor Napoléon III.

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