Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, who had been elected President…

1840 CE to 1851 CE

Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, who had been elected President of the French Republic, stagesa coup d'état on December 2, 1851, by dissolving the National Assembly without having the constitutional right to do so.

He thus becomes sole ruler of France, and re-establishes universal suffrage, previously abolished by the Assembly.

His decisions are popularly endorsed by a referendum later that month that attracts an implausible ninety-two percent support.

At this same referendum, a new constitution is approved.

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Paris Ile-de-France France View →

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Napoleon III View →

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France, constitutional monarchy of View → France, Second Republic of View →

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French Revolutions of 1848 and 1851 View →

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