napoleon iii

What if Napoleon III didn't do a self-coup and elections are held in 1952? Would this republic be more stable than the Third French Republic? Could Nap III be influential in the politics of this France? Would the Crimean War still happen? How do Franco-British relations continue? Will Bismarck...

As I'm sure many of you are aware, Napoleon Bonaparte's French empire was not the last time France had an imperial system of government. His nephew Louis-Napoleon would topple the July monarchy in 1848 and in 1851 proclaimed himself Emperor; a system that would last until his defeat in 1871 by...

Excerpt from The unexpected heir: the life of Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte by Leonardo Ferrari By early 1858, Napoleon III had become the absolute ruler of France. Through numerous purges and various draconian laws, he had eliminated or forced his most radical domestic opponents to flee...

I came across this reply in a Belgian Luxembourg thread; I don't know whether it is realistic or not but lets assume it occurs. Lets say that the Prince Imperial is never born so Plon-Plon succeeds him as his next closest male relative and enacts more liberal reforms--without the Paris Commune...

The premise of this is that Louis Napoléon doesn't get into any position of power. Maybe he has an accident or never gets out of Ham. Whatever the reason, what sort of affects could this have on France and the wider world? Paris may well be different without his sponsorship of Haussmann and the...

Every now and then I think up a new Napoleon victory scenario with a little more knowledge then before, and a different goal. This time I wanted to get Napoleon’s maximum (and extremely generous) somewhat-plausible victory based on avoiding his worst mistakes and making some good ones, and...

What if Louis Blanc's socialist policy had not been a disaster? Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte still comes to power, but the socialists have much more power. Napoleon would seek out an alliance with the socialists, and Blanc would accept. The Dance of Peasants and Kings is an interesting world with a...

Napoleon III does not invade Mexico. The funds that were used for the war are put towards investing in military technology, improving military training, and reforming the conscription system. The Luxembourg Crisis escalates and causes the Franco-Prussian war to occur in 1867. The war is short...

It still astonishes me that there was a second French Empire with yet another Napoleon after yet another overthrown Republic Curiously enough he was very sick, from urogenital to fiber dysplasia, dying in 1873 So it makes me wonder... Napoleon III's foreign policy would only become known as a...

So I'm imagining a situation where armistice negotiations break down entirely near the end of the war and the fighting drags on for six more months or so. Paris is likely heavily cratered from shelling by this time and the Prussians have taken the city by force. The population has very mixed...

Imaginemos que Napoleón IV no muere y logra sobrevivir.

I am a bit obsessed with the idea that the division of Africa does not happen (at least later). So imagine a world where Bismarck was assassinated in 1866, the Fran-Prussian War did not occur until much later and therefore the Berlin conference did not occur. For this reason, I saw that African...

I challenge you an alternate line where the kingdom of Madagascar survives the French aggression and manages to become a regional power similar to Japan.

I thought that, after a victory in Puebla, the second Mexican empire was established and intervened in the American Civil War. For the affinity of many confederates supported the French intervention and therefore the empire of Maximilian. Although I also think that the Confederates will demand...

Supposing that Napoleon III wins the Franco-Prussian war thus not needing to make political concessions, was there any chance of France eventually becoming a constitutional monarchy later down the line? Could the Bonapartes have returned to the reformism from Napoleon III's earlier years or was...

In 1850 Napoleon III issued an Imperial Decree to transport 6,000 French prisoners to prison camps in French Guiana including the famous Devil's Island from the movie and book Papillon. It was thought to be part of a scheme to bolster French Colonization in the region but conditions at many of...

Part 1: The Treaty of Prague and Resumption of War The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier!’- Otto Von Bismarck, 1866. Chapter One: The Treaty of Prague and Resumption of War The War with Austria was deceptively decisive. Engineered by Otto Von Bismarck, this war...

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, nephew and step grandson of Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, served as the first President of France, and was the only president elected in the second republic, because he would goon to abolish it in favor of a second empire. Suppose though that either the 1849...

In 1858, an Italian nationalist by the name of Felice Orsini attempted to assassinate French emperor Napoleon III, while he and his wife were on the way to the theatre in the Rue Le Peletier, and failed to kill them. What if he had succeeded, and the bomb breaks through the glass and lands on...

What alternatives were there had Napoleon III not annexed the island(s), and what might it mean for the New Hebrides, modern Vanuatu too?