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Career Of Louis Napoleon

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Day
8
Month
April
Year
1898
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The vicissitudes which Louis Napoleon experienced almost írom ".he eradle to the grave were probably all but unexampled, says Archibald Forbes' "Life of Napoleon III." He was a fugitiva before he ïould speak articulately. In the interval between nis 20th and his tOth year he was a prisoner in Strasburg, Lorient, Ham, and the conciergerie. He was &a ovilaw for more than half his life. There were incidents at Strasburg and later at Boulogne which brought upon him the mock and jeer of Europe. He carried a baton as a special constable in Park Lane on Chartistfc' day. Then, by a sudden turn of fortune he became president of the French republic. The coup d'etat made him emperor of th French; and henceforth, for some flfteen years, he was perhaps the most considered man of Europe. It was said of him that on being asked whether he fihould not flnd it difficult to rule the FTench nation he replied: "Oh, no; nothing is more easy: II leur faut une guerre tous les quatre ans." This pollcy held good in a modified degreu. The Crimean war was for him. a success, although not precisely a triumph; the Italian campaign, in epite of its hard fought victories, ended abruptly in approximaíi-a to a failure. Tha Mexican expedition was an utter flasca. Yet Napoleon might have gone on witla his programme of a var every four years but for the circumstance that thero happened Ui be in Europe, in tho middle '60s, an iüflnitely stroager, more masterful and more ruse man than tho dreamy and decaying Napoleon (to wit, Otto von Bismarck).

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