Napoleon III, the last monarch of France, was the nephew and heir of Napoleon.
They turned for allies to the Catholic elite of Paris and to people close to Napoleon III.
Distinguished gentlemen have been buying bespoke suits on London's Savile Row for centuries, from Churchill to Napoleon III.
The ring is from the collection of Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie, according to the auction house.
In the end, it was an emperor, Napoleon III, nephew of the more famous Napoleon, who completed the project in the 1850s.
Napoleon III's plan was to instill a monarchy over Mexico and "have that monarch cooperate with the Confederacy, " Hayes-Bautista said.
La Peregrina reappears in England only in the later 19th century, having been acquired from Napoleon III by the Duke of Abercorn.
France at the time was a global superpower, ruled by Emperor Napoleon III, its military machine undefeated since the Battle of Waterloo a half-century before.
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He also knew the French Impressionists' paintings of expansive avenues, exquisite vistas and elegant bourgeois society that marked the stunning transformation of Napoleon III's Paris into a gleaming, modern metropolis.
Recently published archive documents from the Paris police headquarters include a leather-bound volume of intelligence files on 415 prostitutes, and two registers containing files on 1, 200 homosexuals all collected by police spies under Napoleon III.
French emperor Napoleon III "was no friend of the Union and was definitely a friend of the Confederacy and flirted with the Confederacy constantly with the possible recognition of the Confederate government, " Hayes-Bautista said.
The classification came about thanks to Napoleon III, who ordered a group of wine brokers to come up with a list of the best Bordeaux in time for the Paris Exposition, a sort of national trade fair.
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As a member of the avant-garde in mathematics in France in the 1930s he made his name as a founder of the Bourbaki group, which owed its moniker to a prank theorem named after a general in Napoleon III's army.
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