Appendix - Second Empire Timeline
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2012
Summary
1852
Events
Louis Napoleon becomes President following coup d'état of 2 December 1851.
Press regime decreed.
Paris-Strasbourg and Paris-Creil railway lines inaugurated.
Gare de Lyon and Gare de Montparnasse completed.
Work begins on the ‘New Louvre’.
Le Bon Marché founded.
Plebiscite approves restoration of the Empire.
Proclamation of Second Empire; on 2 December 1852 Louis Napoleon becomes Napoleon III.
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- Changing FranceLiterature and Material Culture in the Second Empire, pp. 173 - 186Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2011