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help| In French political history, Bonapartism has two meanings. In a strict sense, this term refers to people who aimed to restore the French Empire under the House of Bonaparte, the Corsican family of Napoleon Bonaparte (Napoleon I of France) and his nephew Louis (Napoleon III of France). In a wider sense, it refers to a broad centrist political movement that advocates the idea of a strong and... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Bonapartism
French Monarchy - Bonaparte Dynasty -
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Bonapartism (epithet)
Bonapartism is often defined as a political expression in the vocabulary of Marxism and Leninism, deriving from the career of Napoleon Bonaparte. Karl Marx was a student of Jacobinism and the French Revolution as well as a contemporary critic of the Second Republic and Second Empire. -
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Neo-Bonapartism
Ironically, the best example of Bonapartism may be Roman dictators from the Republican Period, like Julius Caesar, who attempted to quash the power of the Senate and advance the rights and welfare of the people. -
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Napoleon I of France
In a wider sense, Bonapartism refers to a Marxist concept of a government that forms when class rule is not secure and a military, police, and state bureaucracy intervenes to establish order. -
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Line of succession to the French throne (Bonapartist)
Bonapartism was slowly relegated to being the civic faith of a few romantics as more of a hobby than a practical political philosophy. -
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Orléanist
After the restoration of the Bourbons (1815), the liberals were identified with the Orléanists, who rejected the legitimism of the elder branch as well as Bonapartism, which in their view was essentially "democratic Caesarism" - an equal submission of all men to one despotic ruler. -
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Napoleon III of France
During his years of imprisonment, he wrote essays and pamphlets that combined his monarchical claim with progressive, even mildly socialist economic proposals, as he defined Bonapartism. -
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The Third of May 1808
Art in an Age of Bonapartism, 1800–1815. -
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Alexis de Tocqueville
Richter Melvin and Baehr Peter : Dictatorship in History and Theory: Bonapartism, Caesarism, and Totalitarianism, Publications of the German Institute, Cambridge University Press, 2004. -
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Men Among the Ruins
Bonapartism -- Machiavellianism -- Elitism
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