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In the end the British anti-French reaction was kind of a nothingburger though, and within about 4 or 5 years (1853), Britain was aligned with 19th-century 'Hitler's nephew' -led France in a crisis, a year later (1854) aligned with them in a war, two years after that (1856), aligned with him in...

Why was Europe, and Britain in particular, so relatively "chill" about the ascension of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte to power? You would think his coming to power, and stepping through the cursus infamousorum of naming himself Consul and then Emperor would seem like some spooky deja vu to Europeans...