His nicknames included Rantipole, reflecting his wild and rakish youth; Man of Silence, from his taciturnity; Badinguet, from the name of the mason who changed clothes with him when he escaped from Ham; Boustrapa, a compound of Boulogne, Strasbourg, and Paris, the places of his escapades; and Man of Sedan, because it was at Sedan in 1870 that he surrendered to William I of Prussia.  FTP, name Louis Bonaparte's third son who was also called the Ma
His nicknames included Rantipole, reflecting his wild and rakish youth; Man of Silence, from his taciturnity; Badinguet, from the name of the mason who changed clothes with him when he escaped from Ham; Boustrapa, a compound of Boulogne, Strasbourg, and Paris, the places of his escapades; and Man of Sedan, because it was at Sedan in 1870 that he surrendered to William I of Prussia.  FTP, name Louis Bonaparte's third son who was also called the Man of December when he became emperor of France in December 1852.
His nicknames included Rantipole, reflecting his wild and rakish youth; Man of Silence, from his taciturnity; Badinguet, from the name of the mason who changed clothes with him when he escaped from Ham; Boustrapa, a compound of Boulogne, Strasbourg, and Paris, the places of his escapades; and Man of Sedan, because it was at Sedan in 1870 that he surrendered to William I of Prussia.  
Napoleon III