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IOTL, there was an attempt on Napoleon's life by an italian nationalist named Felice Orsini in 1858. He threw a bomb on Napoleon's carriage, and it killed almost everyone except for Napoleon III himself. It was later revealed that Orsini was supported by british radicals and enabled to get his equipment by lax british asylum laws. This caused a short diplomatic crisis between Britain and France. But what if Napoleon III had been killed by Orsini's bomb?
We know that Napoleon III's son was only two years old in 1858, so who would take the regency? How different will be the regent's international policies from Napoleon III's, concerning the german question, the mexican empire, the American Civil War and the Second Shcleswig War?
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