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![[Flag of France]](../images/f/fr.gif)
Flag of the French Empire - Image by Željko Heimer, 23 September 2001
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On 2 December 1851, the President of the French Republic, Prince
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, dissolved the National Assembly and
established a centralized and authoritarian regime.
On 2 December 1852, the Prince was proclaimed Emperor of the French
as Napoléon III.
In July 1870, France declared war to Prussia. Captured during the battle of
Sedan (2 September 1970), the Emperor was dethroned on 4 September. On 19 March 1871, the dethroned Emperor left Germany for England,
where he died in 1873.
Ivan Sache, 16 December 2001
The national flag used during the Second Empire was the blue-white-red Tricolore flag.
Ivan Sache, 16 December 2001
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