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1. Second French Empire

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   Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, was elected as the first President of the Second Republic in 1848. Facing constitutional limits on his ability to run for a second term, he engineered a coup d'état on December 2, 1851, the anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation and victory at Austerlitz. This action dissolved the Legislative Assembly and con…