Foreign policy actions taken during this man's reign include the dissolution of Manzzini's Roman Republic and the restoration of Pope Pius IX, despite this ruler's earlier sympathies for Italian nationalism. Another of this man's programs modernized his capital under the direction of Baron Haussmann. This ruler also militarily supported the claim of Maximilian I to the Mexican throne, until the ultimate defeat of monarchist and French forces at the 1862 Battle of Puebla.
Foreign policy actions taken during this man's reign include the dissolution of Manzzini's Roman Republic and the restoration of Pope Pius IX, despite this ruler's earlier sympathies for Italian nationalism. Another of this man's programs modernized his capital under the direction of Baron Haussmann. This ruler also militarily supported the claim of Maximilian I to the Mexican throne, until the ultimate defeat of monarchist and French forces at the 1862 Battle of Puebla. In 1870, following the French defeat at Sedan in the Franco-Prussian War, he was deposed. For 10 points name this man the first president of the French Republic and last Emperor of France, reigning from 1851 until 1870.
Foreign policy actions taken during this man's reign include the dissolution of Manzzini's Roman Republic and the restoration of Pope Pius IX, despite this ruler's earlier sympathies for Italian nationalism.
{Napoleon III} (prompt on {Napoleon})