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The surrender of Napoleon III to the Prussians after the Battle of Sedan during the Franco-Prussian War aka Franco-German War in 1870. Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte, 1808 -1873. The only president (1848-52) of the French Second Republic and, as Napoleon III, the Emperor (1852-70) of the Second French Empire. From Hutchinson's History of the Nations, published 1915.
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