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	French Empire Furniture Ormolu Gilt Bronze Dore Lighting Clocks
		A Fine 2nd Empire large ormolu or gilt bronze mounted Mahogany stool with Somolian Leopard fur cushion.
		During the second (2nd) French Empire Napoleon III requested many designs and 'Styles ' be recreated.
		The designs from the first French Empire such as original period furniture by master cabinet makers like Jacob were copied and reproduced.
	ormolu.com /items/278050/item278050ormolu.html (155 words)

	French Colonial Empires
		Early French attempts to found colonies in Brazil, in 1555 at Rio de Janeiro (the so-called France Antarctique) and in 1612 at São Luís (the so-called France Équinoxiale), and in Florida were unsuccessful, due to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance.
		The French made their last major colonial gains after the First World War, when they gained mandates over the former Turkish territories that make up what is now Syria and Lebanon, as well as most of the former German colonies of Togo and Cameroon.
		The French colonial empire began to fall apart during the Second World War, when various parts of their empire were occupied by foreign powers (Japan in Indochina, Britain in Syria and Lebanon, the US and Britain in Morocco and Algeria, Germany in Tunisia).
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /imperialism/notes/frenchempire.html (1540 words)

	French empire - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		Britain frustrated French aspirations in Egypt and the Sudan, and rivalry at Fashoda (1898) nearly caused war until the Entente Cordiale brought agreement.
		In 1946 the empire was formed into the French Union, which was replaced in 1958 by the FRENCH COMMUNITY.
		The complete guide to elegant France: Second Empire France; Without the vision of Napoleon III and his planner Baron Haussmann in the 19th century, Paris would not be the city we know today.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1O48-Frenchempire.html (924 words)

	ipedia.com: Second French Empire Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The recall of French troops from Rome, in accordance with the convention of 1864, led to further attacks by the Ultramontane party, who were alarmed for the papacy.
		Thus the French army proceeded by disastrous stages from Weissenburg, Forbach, Froeschweiler, Borny, Gravelotte, Noisseyule and Saint-Privat to the siege of Metz and the slaughter at Illy.
		The Empire had fallen, the emperor was a prisoner in Germany, and France now embarked on the era of the Third Republic.
	www.ipedia.com /second_french_empire.html (4674 words)

	Second French Empire - Return of Napoleon III
		he Second French Empire or Second Empire was the imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second republic and the Third Republic, in France.
		The recall of French troops from Rome, in accordance with the convention of 1864, led to further attacks by the Ultramontane party, who were alarmed for the papacy.
		Thus the French army proceeded by disastrous stages from Weissenburg, Forbach, Froeschweiler, Borny, Gravelotte, Noisseyule and Saint-Privat to the siege of Metz and the slaughter at Illy.
	www.bonjourlafrance.net /france-facts/france-history/second-french-empire.htm (4627 words)

	Third French Republic
		The French Third Republic, sometimes written as the IIIrd Republic (1870-1940), was the governing body of France between the Second Empire and the Fourth Republic.
		However, the French Second Empire lasted only twenty years because of the rise of another world power, one that was to upset the balance of power in Europe and eventually bring about World War One - the German Empire.
		To mark the final end of French monarchism as a serious political source, in 1885 the French Crown Jewels were broken up and sold.
	faculty.ucc.edu /egh-damerow/third_french_republic.htm (1047 words)

	French colonial empires Summary
		Early French attempts to found colonies in Brazil, in 1555 at Rio de Janeiro (the so-called France Antarctique) and in 1612 at São Luís (the so-called France Équinoxiale), and in Florida were unsuccessful, due to Portuguese and Spanish vigilance and prevention.
		The French made their last major colonial gains after the First World War, when they gained mandates over the former Turkish territories of the Ottoman Empire that make up what is now Syria and Lebanon, as well as most of the former German colonies of Togo and Cameroon.
		The French colonial empire began to fall apart during the Second World War, when various parts of their empire were occupied by foreign powers (Japan in Indochina, Britain in Syria, Lebanon, and Madagascar, the US and Britain in Morocco and Algeria, and Germany in Tunisia).
	www.bookrags.com /French_colonial_empires (3445 words)

	Napoleon
		Encouraged by the government, the history painters of the Second Empire became the self-appointed chroniclers of the military campaigns.
		The French capital thus leapt from 12 to 20 arrondissements and from 3,288 to 7,088 hectares.
		Second Empire society was witness to the disappearance of old Paris in favour of a healthy, aerated city, with large arterial roads giving excellent views of the recently built monuments, as can be seen here (the silhouette of the Opéra can be seen to the left, in the distance).
	www.napoleon.org /en/essential_napoleon/key_painting/second_empire.asp (1932 words)

	The Franco-Prussian War and Immediate Aftermath (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An ill-written French denunciation was matched by a Prussian distortion, and soon the French Empire and the North German Confederation -- joined by the south German states of Baden, Württemburg, and Bavaria -- were preparing for war.
		At that northern Alsatian town, the main French army was crushed and the Emperor Napoléon III himself captured by the Prussian and Baden forces.
		The collapse of the Second Empire on the battlefield and subsequent humiliation of France thoroughly discredited the Bonapartist party.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/frpruswar.html (424 words)

	The U.S. in Bible Prophecy
		The first vision of the four empires was presented under the type of a huge statue of a man with four different metals corresponding to the four empires (Daniel chapter 2).
		It comprised all the New World: North and South America, the Philippines, the Netherlands, the holy Roman Empire, parts of Italy etc., etc. This was a golden empire indeed considering all the gold that the Conquistadors stole from the Indians of South America.
		The Fourth Empire is the U.S. Pax Romana
	www.reformation.org /fourthempire.html (1913 words)

	Anti-Semitism: France’s National Shame
		French Jews were associated with leading banking institutions and they were prominent exponents of economic growth and modernity.
		French anti-Semitism, therefore, became an expression of the hatred of modernity.
		The French Jew, therefore, was always in a no-win situation: he was hated if he successfully assimilated, and he was hated if he did not.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=228 (731 words)

	French Empire
		Last century’s French Revolution was a revolt against both the oppression of the Vatican and the nobles that were seen as the puppets of Rome, and paved the way for the foundation of modern France, even through the atrocities and horror that were perpetrated on its own people.
		French officers also tend towards the conservative and unimaginative as a general rule, and are prone to making errors of judgement, stemming from an unfailing belief in French supremacy or an overall lack of information, or both.
		French interests in the Caribbean are hampered by a lack of territory on the mainland, since the sale of their North American holdings to the United States.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /rumtigger2/Nations/france.htm (2459 words)

	France, République française, embassy, embassies
		France, officially the French Republic (French: République française), is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in Western Europe and that also comprises a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents.
		In the 19th and 20th centuries, its global colonial empire was the second largest in the world behind the British Empire.
		The Second Republic's anthem was "Le Chant des Girondins" ("The Song of Girondists") by the famed writer Alexandre Dumas.
	www.allembassies.com /france.html (1652 words)

	Overview of the World's Nations
		French troops are solid but unspectacular, their knights powerful but undisciplined.
		Usually seen as backward, primitive, and somewhat frightening by the ‘civilised’ nations of Europe, the Russian Empire is one of the largest in the world, stretching from the Sea of Japan in the East to the Baltic Sea in the west, as well as holdings in Alaska in North America.
		Their empire was the largest the world has ever seen, and is still enormous, though much reduced.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /rumtigger2/overview.htm (5747 words)

	French Second Empire
		The Second Empire was considered "radical chic" at the time, and was the first truly modern style of architecture in American history.
		Second Empire houses were commonly decorated with elaborate bracketing under the eaves, and with other moldings, spindles, and raised panels.
		It is curious to note that the Second Empire style, originally considered so stylish and avant gard, fell precipitously from favor toward the end of the 19th century.
	www.americanlandmarks.com /french.htm (509 words)

	Napoleon
		We have selected here for you a list of books (all currently available) which we consider key works on the life and works of Napoleon III and the Second Empire in general.
		Brief but very useful - the only work in English by the Irish specialist on all things Second Empire - his biography of Napoleon III (in French, Hachette, 1983) is the standard work.
		Case, L., French opinion on War and Diplomacy during the Second Empire, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1954, 339 p.
	www.napoleon.org /en/essential_napoleon/books/napoleon3.asp (323 words)

	History Scotland Magazine: Review - Michael Fry, The Scottish Empire
		It is therefore a Lowland empire and a Presbyterian one, and inevitably mainly a masculine one.
		Canada is an empire of resources inhabited by rather rich but not very coherent groups whose relationship to the neighbouring global hegemon is unmistakeably one of neo-colonial dependency.
		Paul Cambon, as French ambassador to the Court of St James before the First World War, refused to learn English for fear of damaging his French diction which means he could take it for granted that everyone who mattered could talk to him in French.
	www.historyscotland.com /bookreviews/scottishempire.html (1699 words)

	Personalities
		In November of 1852, a plebiscite established the Second French empire and Louis Napoleon became Emperor Napoleon III.
		Napoleon III severely underestimated the strength of the Prussian military and he and 100,000 of his troops were captured at Sedan prompting Paris to rise in rebellion which led to the fall of the Second Empire and the establishment of the Third Republic.
		Thiers opposed French involvement in the Franco-Prussian War and when France was defeated in 1871, he was made President of the new Republic.
	www.humboldt.edu /~bjb9/personalities.htm (948 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Second Empire is an architectural style that was popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the 'French' elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire.
		Prior to the construction of The Pentagon in the 1940s, the Second Empireâ“styled Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U.S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.
		Second Empire was succeeded by the Queen Anne Style era, and its sub-styles, which enjoyed great popularity until the rise of the 'Revival Era' in American architecture just before the end of the 19th century.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Second_Empire (798 words)

	The Second Orleanist Kingdom (1871 to present)
		The collapse of the Second French Empire on the battlefields of the Franco-Prussian War left French political life in disarray.
		Under the 1872 Constitutional Law, the universal manhood suffrage established under the Second Republic was confirmed, and a Chamber of Deputies and a Senate were organized to serve as the governing bodies of the French state.
		The last major concern of the French government, though subordinated to French foreign policy, was the consolidation and expansion of the French colonial empire.
	www.ahtg.net /TpA/2ndorlki.html (999 words)

	FRANCE HISTORY, the second empire, french history
		The Second French Empire or Second Empire was the imperial Bonapartist regime of Napoleon III from 1852 to 1870, between the Second republic and the Third Republic, in France.
		Although the machinery of government was almost the same under the Second Empire as it had been under the First, its founding principles were different.
		The function of the Empire, as he loved to repeat, was to guide the people internally towards justice and externally towards perpetual peace.
	www.travel-france-vacation.com /france-history-french-second-empire.htm (1057 words)

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		For this reason, Second Empire homes in the United States are often composites of Italianate, Carpenter Gothic and other styles.
		A spectacular example of French Second Empire architecture, this home has been completely refurbished by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. Sixteen rooms showcase technology that was far ahead of its time when constructed in 1877.
		In the latter half of the 19th cent., during the ill-starred regime (1864–67) of Emperor Maximilian, the heavy splendor of French Second Empire architecture was imported into Mexico.
	www.lycos.com /info/french-second-empire.html (460 words)

	France at AllExperts
		The basic principles that the French Republic must respect are found in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
		The French parliament is a bicameral legislature comprising a National Assembly (AssemblÃ©e Nationale) and a Senate.
		Marianne is a symbol of the French Republic.
	en.allexperts.com /e/f/fr/france.htm (4254 words)

	Napoleon III - France.com
		He was elected President (1848-1852) of the Second Republic of France and subsequently Emperor (1852-1870), reigning as Napoleon III (Second French Empire).
		Imprisoned after the second of two abortive coup attempts (October 1836 and August 1840), he escaped to the United Kingdom in May 1846, returning after the revolution of February 1848 to win the presidential election December 2 that year on a platform of strong government, social consolidation and national greatness.
		He approved the launching of a naval expedition in 1858 to punish the Vietnamese and force the court to accept a French presence in the country.
	www.france.com /docs/155.html (583 words)

	Colonialism at AllExperts
		Separation was thus opposed to the French ideal of assimilation, based on its universalist philosophy, a legacy of the 1789 French Revolution and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
		While the French universalist ideal of according full citizenship to the inhabitants of the colonies partly remained what it was, an ideal to be realized — an idea as defined by Kant — in Great Britain several voices opposed themselves to the separation system and the colonial administration.
		In France, the colonial empire was not used for massive emigration, as in the British Empire.
	en.allexperts.com /e/c/co/colonialism.htm (9520 words)

	Articles - Second Empire (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Second Empire is an architectural style that was popular during the Victorian era, reaching its zenith between 1865 and 1880, and so named for the âFrenchâ elements in vogue during the era of the Second French Empire.
		Prior to the construction of The Pentagon in the 1940s, the Second Empireâ“styled Ohio State Asylum for the Insane in Columbus, Ohio was reported to be the largest building under one roof in the U.S., though the title may actually belong to Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, another Kirkbride Second Empire asylum.
		Second Empire was succeeded by the Queen Anne Style era, and its sub-styles, which enjoyed great popularity until the rise of the âRevival Eraâ in American architecture just before the end of the 19th century.
	lastring.com /articles/Second_Empire?mySession=4132653deb0730fe55392... (876 words)

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