The Other Napoleon

Louis Napoleon was the nephew of Napoléon Buonoparte. Cashing in his uncle’s name he came to power and styled himself as Napoleon III.
Rephrasing Marxian dictum I think history can only descend into a farce whenever it seems to repeat itself. His reign was a fiasco from the start till his rout at Sedan in 1870.
How often people are fobbed off with ‘counterfeits’ whose only claim to power is a family name or a mistaken notion that the political mantel has fallen on so and so?
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