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Clarke Award

Louis Napoleon and the Second Empire new-arrivals-031121 Reading this book is likeAuthor: J. M. Thompson Publisher: Blackwell, 1965 Condition: Softcover, yellowed cover, interior clean An excellent one volume portrait of Napoleon III and the short lived second French Empire which was brought to ruins by the 1870 Franco Prussian war. ONCE again J. M. Thompson has given us a colorful, arresting, and interpretative account of a period of French historythis time of the Second Empire. In this instance, as in previous works, the author