AP Euro Notes Sec 22-1 pp.666-684 Nalani Story The France of Napoleon III Napoleon III taught his contemporaries how authoritarian gov?ts could use liberal & nationalistic forces to bolster their own power Louis Napoleon: Toward the Second Empire Many contemporaries dismissed ?Napoleon the Small? as a nonentity who?s success due only to his name However he= smart, clever, patient Used troops to seize control of gov?t on Dec 1, 1851 Restored universal male suffrage Asked French people to restructure the gov?t by electing him president for 10 yrs 7.5 mil yes vs. 640,000 No Nov 21, 1852= Louis Nap asked for restoration of empire 97%=yes Dec 2, 1852, Louis Nap= assumed title of Napoleon II 2nd empire=begun The Second Napoleonic Empire