What is Napoléon III?
{{Infobox royalty |name = ''[[His Excellency]]'' <br /> Napoleon III <br /> The ''[[President of France]]'' |image = Napoleon III 1863.jpg |image_size = 233px |succession = [[Emperor of the French]] |reign = 2 December 1852 –<br/>4 September 1870 |predecessor = [[Second French Empire|Monarchy re-created]] <br/> [[Louis Philippe I]] <br/> {{small|''as King of the French''}} |successor = [[French Third Republic|Monarchy abolished]] <br/> [[Louis Jules Trochu]] <br/> {{small|''as President of the Government of National Defense'’}} [[Adolphe Thiers]] |reg-type = [[Prime Minister of France|Cabinet Chiefs]] |regent = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1=[[Émile Ollivier]] <br/> [[Charles Cousin-Montauban]]}} |succession1 = [[President of the French Republic]] |reign-type1 = In office |reign1 = 20 December 1848 –<br />2 December 1852 |predecessor1 = [[French Second Republic|Republic re-created]] <br> [[Louis-Eugène Cavaignac]] <br/> {{small|''as Chief of the Executive Power''}} |successor1 = Republic abolished |reg-type1 = {{nowrap|Prime Ministers}} |regent1 = {{List collapsed|title=''See list''|1=[[Odilon Barrot]] <br/> [[Alphonse Henri d'Hautpoul]] <br/> [[Léon Faucher]]}} |spouse = [[Eugénie de Montijo]] |issue = [[Louis Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] |full name = Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte |house = [[House of Bonaparte]] |father = [[Louis I of Holland]] |mother = [[Hortense de Beauharnais]] |birth_date = {{Birth date|1808|4|20|df=y}} |birth_place = [[Paris]], French Empire |death_date = {{Death date and age|1873|1|09|1808|4|20|df=yes}} |death_place = Chislehurst, [[England]] |burial_place = St Michael's Abbey, [[England]] | signature = 1855 signature of Napoléon III of France.jpg |religion = [[Roman Catholicism]] }} '''Napoléon III''' (20 April 1808 – 9 January 1873), also known as '''Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte''', was the first [[President of the French Republic]] and the last [[monarch]] of [[France]]. Made president by popular vote in 1848, Napoleon III ascended to the throne on 2 December 1852, the forty-eight