![]() Power represented a significant historical step forward, just not in a wholly However, there is an argument that Louis-Napoleon’s time in Social and political progress in the mid-nineteenth century. Generally as a people haunted by ghosts from a heroic past, which prevented Marx painted an unflattering picture of the nephew and of the French more In comparing the rise of Napoleon I to power via the coupĭ’état of 9 November 1799 with Louis-Napoleon’s coup d’état of 2 December 1851, He is perhaps most famous today, in the English-speaking world at least, for being the object of Karl Marx’s famous claim that ‘all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.’ ![]() It was a rather ignominious end to a very eventful and impactful life. On this day (9 th January) 1873, Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, former French Emperor Napoleon III, nephew of Emperor Napoleon I, died at Camden Place in Kent, now the site of Chislehurst Golf Club. ![]()
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