All you need to know about the famous Napoleon III Style (1850-1870)
The Napoleon III style Politically, the2nd Empire only lasted eighteen years (1852-1870), but the style corresponded from 1852 to the beginning of the IIIrd Republic around 1890. The Napoleon III style thus corresponds more or less to the Victorian style of the English. Today, we think of Napoleon Bonaparte’s reign as an eighteen-year period of…
