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The vice presidency was established at the start of the Second Republic by the Constitution of 4 November 1848, specifically its articles 45, 70 and 71. [1] It was broadly inspired by the vice president of the United States, as were some other features of the new constitution, which created France’s closest experiment towards a presidential system, with the introduction of a president, an ...
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.
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.
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.
Gaston Doumergue began his term as president of France. 1931: 13 June: Paul Doumer began his term as president of France. 1932: 10 May: Albert Lebrun began his term as president of France. 1934: 6 February: Riots by far-right leagues were repressed by the state in what was considered as a failed coup d'état, and a major political crisis of the ...
The French Second Republic lasted from 1848 to 1852, when its president, Charles-Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, was declared Emperor of the French under the regnal name of Napoleon III. He would later be overthrown during the events of the Franco-Prussian War, becoming the last monarch to rule France.
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.