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The vice president of the Republic (French: vice-président de la République) was an office that existed in France only during the Second Republic (1848–1852), and only ever had one holder, Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe, elected in January 1849.
He was born in Nancy, France in 1797. A staunch Republican and Bonapartist, he was elected to the Provisional Assembly in 1848, and was elected to the newly-established office of vice president on 20 January 1849. He served until 29 March 1852, when the office was omitted in the new Constitution proclaimed in the aftermath of Louis-Napoleon ...
Revolutionary France 1770–1880 (1995), pp 385–437. survey of political history by leading scholar; Guyver, Christopher, The Second French Republic 1848–1852: A Political Reinterpretation, New York: Palgrave, 2016; Price, Roger, ed. Revolution and reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic (Taylor & Francis, 1975). Price, Roger.
The Second French Empire, [a] officially the French Empire, [b] was the government of France from 1852 to 1870. It was established on 2 December 1852 by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, president of France under the French Second Republic, who proclaimed himself Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
French Second Republic (1848−1852). Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. ... Vice President of France; Philippe Vigier ...
Elected first President of the French Republic in the 1848 election against Louis-Eugène Cavaignac. He provoked the coup of 1851 and proclaimed himself Emperor in 1852. Henri Georges Boulay de la Meurthe, Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte's vice president, was the sole person to hold that office.
Napoleon III (Charles-Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was President of France from 1848 to 1852 and then Emperor of the French from 1852 until his deposition in 1870. He was the first president, second emperor, and last monarch of France.
The head of the government of France has been called the prime minister of France (French: Premier ministre) since 1959, when Michel Debré became the first officeholder appointed under the Fifth Republic. During earlier periods of history, the head of government of France was known by different titles.