Statue of Napoleon III, Parco Sempione - Milan, Italy
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Statue of Napoleon III by the artist Francesco Barzaghi, located at Parco Sempione, in Milan, Italy
Waymark Code: WMARC5
Location: Lombardia, Italy
Date Posted: 02/17/2011
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?«Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873) was the President of the French Second Republic and as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. He was the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, christened as Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte. Elected President by popular vote in 1848, he initiated a coup d'état in 1851, before ascending the throne as Napoleon III on 2 December 1852, the forty-eighth anniversary of Napoleon I's coronation. He ruled as Emperor of the French until 4 September 1870. He holds the unusual distinction of being both the first titular president and the last monarch of France.»
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Francesco Barzaghi (Milan, 1839 – Milan, 1892), was an Italian sculptor. This sculpture was done in 1886.