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Why was Europe, and Britain in particular, so relatively "chill" about the ascension of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to power?
It helped that Napoleon III came to power after the revolutions of 1830 and 1848. So since the last time a Napoleon was in charge of France, there had been two Bourbon kings (one deathly ill and elderly and his successor a spendthrift incompetent), a third Bourbon who had modest success only to...- Word Count: 130
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