Napoleon IV

Emperor Napoleon is the Head of State of the French Empire, assuming this post at the age of 17 in 1873, with the death of his father, having a reign of 27 years. Napoleon IV was born in the Tuileries Palace in 1856, being the only child of Napoleon III with Eugénie de Montijo,

With the death of Napoleon III in 1873, Napoleon IV took over and devoted himself to committing France to be an Important European State in the midst of the world, sealing agreements with the Ottoman Sultan, King of Spain, Portugal, Belgium and the Netherlands, apart from a meeting with the Prussians to discuss the item in the treaty that obliged Prussia to dissolve the North German Confederation, the argument used against dissolution was approved by Napoleon IV just as his Napoleon III had done, since Prussia still exercised power over smaller German states, which had the title of Federated States.

During his reign Napoleon IV displaced some Monarchists who were from the Legitimists and Republicans Faction, after Gaston's government, the elections ran out of candidates, so he took over the National Government Council , formed by military and neutral politicians, chosen as the Secretary General of the Council/Prime Minister Louis-Jules Trochu, although this mandate was not his alone, as each Secretary The General of the Council/Prime Minister would rule for two weeks, until the next elections, and with the arrival of the next elections the Bonapartist Conservative Party was elected, and as Prime Minister Joseph Marie Pietri.

## Biography

### Early life

Napoleon IV was born in the Tuileries Palace, and on July 14, 1856 he was baptized in the Notre Dame Cathedral. Pope Pius IX was the godfather of Napoleon IV and his Godmother was Josephine of Leuchtenberg, Queen of Sweden and daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais, who had been represented by the Grand Duchess Stéphanie of Baden.

His education, after a false start with the Academic Historian Francis Monnier, was from 1867 supervised by General Ausguste Frossard as governor, assisted by Augustin Filon as tutor. His nanny, of English origin, was Miss Shaw, recommended by Queen Victoria. Miss Shaw, taught the then heir the English language since childhood. His valet Xavier Uhlmann and his inseparable friend Louis Conneau were prominent figures in his life. The young Napoleon IV was known by the nickname "Loulou" in his family circle. In 1868, Napoleon IV went to Corsica and participated in the centennial festival of the island's annexation to the French.

During the Prusso-French War, Prince Imperial Napoleon IV, participated in the conflict along with his father as a sub-lieutenant. The prince was in the hills in Saarbrücken during the confrontation. While French victories were taking place, Napoleon IV went to Dresden while witnessing the capture of Berlin. With the French victory, the prince closely followed the signing of the peace treaty, and finally returned to France, where he returned to his studies, where he began to learn about physics, during the 1870s, much was speculated about his marriage to Princess Beatrice, youngest daughter of Queen Victoria. However, France was scarred with the death of his father in 1873, Napoleon IV spent time with his father in his last moments. After the death of Napoleon III, his son Napoleon IV was crowned as the new Emperor, but he has yet to assume the post.

### Short Regency

With the coronation of Napoleon IV as Emperor, still at the age of 17, he was governed by his mother, who assumed the position of Imperial Regent, until her son turned 18 years old, in which Napoleon IV took advantage and continued to study, while her mother governed France, while looking for a suitor, and the chosen one was Beatrice herself, Napoleon IV accepted her as a suitor, strengthening ties with the British Empire, taking advantage of this fact, Beatrice traveled to Paris in order to To get to know her future fiancé and husband better, during her stay Beatrice was treated to a visit to the theater along with Napoleon IV, and a room of her own in the Imperial villa, returning to the UK in five weeks. On 1 June 1873 the prince is proclaimed as Napoleon IV, and his mother leaves the regency.

### Reign

#### First Years (1873-1881)

The first years of the reign of Napoleon IV was marked by constant diplomatic actions, an example was his constant attempts to bring the French Empire closer to the Ottoman Empire, his diplomatic campaign began in the Iberian Peninsula with the Emperor establishing better relations with the Spanish Republic and the Kingdom from Portugal, in Spain Napoleon IV desperately tried to negotiate with the Spaniards the return of the monarchy and the ascension of his candidate to the throne, with unsuccessful results.

Napoleon IV also presented other economic projects, opening the market much more, but still enough for the government to be able to regulate and guarantee that France becomes an economic accommodation, at the same time that it took advantage of States to the world that are economic accommodations. Six years after his ascension to the rank of Emperor, the marriage previously speculated and a simple theory, was proven real, Napoleon IV married the youngest daughter of Queen Victoria, Princess Beatrice, offered by Victoria herself and reaffirmed by her mother Napoleon IV , Napoleon IV himself and Beatrice herself, the wedding was one of the landmarks of Europe, with the attendance of the future Russian Tsar, Alexander I, Queen Victoria, the future King of Prussia Frederick III, and among others.

Napoleon IV, made constant incentives for the modernization of the army although French pride prevented him, and even if he did not admit it, he even vetoed some of these projects because he believed in the same as the French who thought that the French had sufficiently improved equipment, but although modernization was partially possible and functional, it also encouraged several advances in medicine and public technology, with France becoming practically the only country that encouraged more public development than military development during the Belle Époque, attracting even more emigrants.

#### Aggressive rapprochement with the Ottoman Empire (1881-1896)

With the beginning of the 1880s, Napoleon IV, started a plan of political integration with the Ottoman Empire, mainly, his initial objective was to establish good relations with Russia, which was working, but like Tsar Nicholas I, it did not work. many guarantees or really seemed to want to introduce Russia to France, with the French Emperor becoming even more suspicious of Russia when he saw the Russian approximation with the Kingdom of Prussia.

With this scenario, Napoleon IV began an aggressive diplomatic campaign to establish optimal relations with the Ottoman Empire, granting the Ottoman Sultan gifts, making frequent state visits to the Ottoman Empire, his tactic used to get the Sultan's attention, was to offer a recovery of the Ottoman possessions in the Balkans, along with the encouragement of mutual defense between both nations.

By the beginning of the 1890s, relations between the Ottoman Empire and France were already well established, with the founding of the Cordial Assistance and Mutual Cooperation Agreement in 1892.

#### Meeting Willy Peter Wagner (1880)

On August 30, 1880, Napoleon IV noticed a young member of the Conservative Party of Republican orientation, just entering politics, even though he was the Spokesman of the Party he did not criticize the reign of Napoleon IV, as the Spokesman predecessor did, Willy criticized other more technical factors than the government, almost as if he wanted to make a third-party contribution, his voice was drowned out when the party itself removed him from that post, after praising the government, Willy began a series of criticisms of himself party, becoming a kind of independent politician, even though he is still in a political party. With such criticism Willy joined the Bonapartist branch of the Conservative Party, although he was a German, he knew how to communicate with the population, with him being a spokesman

### Brazilian Question (1888)

On November 15, 1888, the French Emperor gave political exile to the Brazilian Imperial family after the coup of the Proclamation of the Republic, although this attitude was criticized, due to the connection between Prussia and Brazil, but as the house was a mixture of a house French and the main Austrian house, together with another French house married to the heir to the Brazilian throne.

### Government of Friends (1894 - Currently days)

With the rise of one of his friends, the German, Willy Peter Wagner, Napoleon IV and Willy started new projects to modernize public and war technology, in addition to helping Willy to create a kind of supreme Quadrunvirate, involving the Bonaparte family and the People's National Coalition, the French Empire became a personal-oligarch dictatorship.