Napoleon III (Vive L'Empire)

Napoleon III (born Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) as the first elected President of Francefrom 1848 to 1852. When he could not constitutionally be re-elected, he seized power in 1851 and became the Emperor of the French from 1852 to his death in 1873. He founded the Second French Empire with the goal of reasserting French Dominance over Western Europe. He engaged in the Crimean War and the war for Italian Unification and even attempted to install a puppet state in Mexico. In 1870 he faced war with Prussia and defeated the Prussian Armies having established alliances with Bavaria and Austria-Hungary. Napoleon had also modernized the French economy, rebuilt the center of Paris and expanded the French Colonial Empire.