Episode 86: How Much of a Dick was Napoleon III?

Sources

• Roger Price. 1997. Napoleon III and the Second Empire

• Alan Strauss-Schom. 2012. Napoleon III: The Shadow Emperor.

• James F. McMillan. 1991. Napoleon III.

• WB Jerrold. 1875. The life of Napoleon III: Bonaparte Derived from state records, from unpublished family correspondence, and from personal testimony.

A Brief and Incomplete Timeline of the French Revolutionary History

1789 

Storming of the Bastille

1793

Louis XVI executed by the National Convention. Start of the First Republic. 

June 1793

The Reign of Terror begins led by Robespeirre

October 1793

Marie Antoinette executed

1794

Fall of Robespierre

1795

The Directory overthrow The Convention

1799

Napoleon overthrows Directory and replaces it with The French Consulate. Napoleon is First Consul

1804

Napoleon declared emperor and crowned in Paris. Start of First Empire.

1805-1814 

Napoleonic Wars

1814

Napoleon forced to abdicate and exiled to Elba. End of First Empire.

Louis XVIII returned to the throne. Monarchy Returns.

1815

Napoleon escapes from Elba, takes power in France, defeated at Waterloo, exiled again. 

Louis XVIII back on the throne by July.

1815-1824

King Louis XVIII 

(Napoleon dies 1821)

1830

July Revolution. House of Bourbon overthrown, replaced with Louis-Philippe of the House of Orleans as king of France.The July monarchy;.  

1848

February Revolution. L-P forced to abdicate. Second Republic installed with universal male suffrage.

December 1848

Louis Napoleon Bonaparte takes new role of President of the French Republic.

1851

Louis Napoleon crowns himself Napoleon III of France, ending the Second Republic and beginning the Second Empire

1871

Napoleon III exiled after French-Prussian war. End of Second Empire. Start of Third Republic. Paris Commune, then Presidency.