Second French Empire (fra)

Second French Empire

Second French Empire ranks 13,875th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Grodno Region, Guayas Province, and Rural Municipality of Gimli. Memorable people born in Second French Empire include Henri Bergson. Memorable people who died in Second French Empire include Heinrich Heine, Alphonse de Lamartine, and Alexander Herzen. Second French Empire has been the birth place of many philosophers and the death place of many writers, and politicians. Second French Empire is located in France.

The Second French Empire, officially the French Empire, was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the French Second Republic, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III. The period was one of significant achievements in infrastructure and economy, while France reasserted itself as the dominant power in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia