Views of a triumphal arch erected by Napoleon III. 1862.

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Views of a triumphal arch erected by Napoleon III. 1862.

Two views of a temporary triumphal arch, one with scaffolding still in place, erected on the Place des Nations, Paris. The triumphal arch reads "A Napoléon III Empereur des Français aux Armées Victoreuses de Crimée, d'Italie de Chine, Cochinchine, d'Algérie, MDCCCLII-MDCCCLXII."

2 photographic prints : albumen ; image 26 x31 cm. or smaller, on sheet 37 x 45 cm. or smaller.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8205540

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Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, 1808-1873

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Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte, 20 April 1808, Paris, France – died 9 January 1873, Chislehurst, Kent, England), the nephew of Napoleon I and cousin of Napoleon II, was the first president of France, from 1848 to 1852, and the last French monarch, from 1852 to 1870. First elected president of the French Second Republic in 1848, he seized power in 1851, when he could not constitutionally be re-elected, and became the emperor of the French. He founded the Second French Empire ...

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