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 | | On December 2, 1852, France, still under the effect of the "Napoleonic virus", and the fear of anarchy, conferred almost unanimously by a plebiscite the supreme power, with the title of emperor, upon Napoleon III. |
 | | France, reduced to a state of weakness, courted the mockery of Europe by a display of the external magnificence which concealed her decline. |
 | | France, having rejected for dynastic reasons the candidature of a Frenchman, the duc de Montpensier, was threatened with a German prince. |
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