To the Editor of the New-York Times: Interests of overshadowing import are culminating around Louis NAPOLEON, as Emperor of the great French nation, with startling rapidity and force. The astute ...

While Napoleon is often considered the greatest military commander of his time, ... Davout was a junior officer in King Louis XVI’s army at the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789.

King Louis XVIII had neither Napoleon’s charm nor his charisma. France had a constitutional monarchy now, but with royalists threatening to abolish the gains of the revolution, and the economy ...

The liberal hopes of establishing an enduring democratic regime were soon frustrated. In 1848 Louis-Napoleon (a nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte) was elected president with a monarchist majority in ...