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Prior to his reign, Napoleon III was known as '''Louis Napoleon Bonaparte'''. He was born in Paris as the son of [[Louis Bonaparte]], [[King of Holland]] (r. 1806–1810), and [[Hortense de Beauharnais]]. [[Napoleon I]] was Louis Napoleon's paternal uncle, and one of his cousins was the disputed [[Napoleon II]]. Louis Napoleon was the first and only president of the [[French Second Republic]], [[1848 French presidential election|elected in 1848]]. He [[1851 French coup d'état|seized power by force in 1851]] when he could not constitutionally be re-elected. He later proclaimed himself Emperor of the French and founded the [[Second French Empire|Second Empire]], reigning until the defeat of the French Army and his capture by [[Kingdom of Prussia|Prussia]] and its allies at the [[Battle of Sedan]] in 1870.
Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the [[French colonial empire]], made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and personally engaged in two wars. Maintaining leadership for 22 years, he was the longest-reigning
Napoleon III commissioned a [[Haussmann's renovation of Paris|grand reconstruction of Paris]] carried out by prefect of the Seine, Baron [[Georges-Eugène Haussmann]]. He expanded and consolidated the railway system throughout the nation and modernized the banking system. Napoleon promoted the building of the [[Suez Canal]] and established modern agriculture, which ended famines in France and made the country an agricultural exporter. He negotiated the 1860 [[Cobden–Chevalier Treaty|Cobden–Chevalier Free Trade Agreement]] with [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|Britain]] and similar agreements with France's other European trading partners. Social reforms included giving French workers the right to strike, the right to organize, and the right for women to be admitted to a French university.
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