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SUMMARY:History talk about Napoleon III - Alliance Française Cambridge pr
 esents Véronique Fournier
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CONTACT:Patricia Dalby
DESCRIPTION:*Date*:     Saturday 11th February 2017\n*Time*:    From 2pm \
 n*Venue*: Alliance Française Cambridge\, 60 Hills Rd\, CB2 1LA\n*Price*: 
    Free\n\n*No booking required* \n\n   Napoléon III has often been ridic
 uled\, especially under the III rd Republic which was established after hi
 s downfall. But over the last decades\, historians have reassessed his tim
 e in power. Victor Hugo\, author of Les Misérables did contribute to this
  negative image by calling him Napoléon Le Petit.\n\n   One of Napoléon 
 III’s mistakes might have been that he was ahead of his time. Indeed\, u
 nlike many of his French counterparts\, he had spent many years abroad. Bu
 t he was also often indecisive and was not always firm enough with his ent
 ourage\, especially his troublesome Bonaparte family. His life reads like 
 a novel of adventure: exiled at the age of ten\, conspirator\, adventurer\
 , prisoner\, fugitive\, but also the first president France ever had befor
 e becoming emperor at the age of forty-four\, until finally dying in exile
 .\n\n   Under his reign\, France underwent tremendous industrial\, social\
 , economic\, cultural and societal transformation. Véronique Fournier\, t
 eacher at the Alliance Française\, will look at the personal life of Napo
 léon III but will also analyse his policies and the changes that the coun
 try experienced at the dawn of the modern era.\n
LOCATION:Alliance Française Cambridge\, 60 Hills road\, CB2 1LA
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