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Second Empire

A constitutional and political system instituted in France on December 2, 1852, when the President of the Republic, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, became Empereur of the French, taking the name of Napoléon III. This system ceased to exist on September 4, 1870 following the French defeat at Sedan, during the war against Prussia.

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