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TIMELINE OF THE... SECOND FRENCH EMPIRE

2 December 1851-2 December 1852

COUP D’ÉTAT OF 1851

Napoleon I’s nephew Prince Louis-Napoléon, the first president of France, launches a coup to stay in office. Soldiers occupy strategic points in Paris, and hundreds of opponents are killed while thousands more

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