HISTORY
ABSOLUTISM AND REVOLUTION
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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King Charles I
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Peter the Great
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King John I
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Detailed explanation-1: -Answer and Explanation: Napoleon III was not an absolute monarch in the traditional sense. While he did not believe that he had been ordained by God to rule France, he did rule in the style of an absolute monarch.
Detailed explanation-2: -Napoleon III was a popular monarch who oversaw the modernization of the French economy and filled Paris with new boulevards and parks. He expanded the French overseas empire, made the French merchant navy the second largest in the world, and personally engaged in two wars.
Detailed explanation-3: -Consequently, on May 18th, 1804, the Senate – who had all been chosen by Napoleon-passed a law making him Emperor of the French (he had rejected ‘king’ as both too close to the old royal government and not ambitious enough) and his family was made hereditary heirs.
Detailed explanation-4: -From 1852 to 1860, Napoleon III held absolute power on the basis of universal suffrage, which always gave him overwhelming majorities but whose orientation was guided by the mechanism of the “official candidacy". The regime’s pillars of support were the old Orleanist bourgeoisie, Catholics and business circles.