2-361-792 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Napoleon III, Emperor of France, 19th century (1956). Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (1808-1873) was President of the French Second Republic from 1849 until 1852, when he restored the French Empire and ruled as Napoleon III. He was forced into exile after France's defeat in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871. A print from People, a volume about the origin and early history of many things, common and less common, essential and inessential, by Readers Union, the Grosvenor Press, London, 1956.