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NAPOLEON III: (1808-1873) - NAPOLEON III: (1808-1873) Emperor of the French 1852-70, the nephew of Napoleon I and the last monarch to rule over France. Napoleon III also served as the first President of France 1848-52. L.S., Napoleon , one page, 8vo, Torquay, 7 th October 1871, to a gentleman, in French. Napoleon states that he has received his correspondent's letter sending the kind feelings of the Literary Society of Minerva to him and his family ( 'J'ai recu votre lettre dans la qu elle vous me faites part des sentiments de sympathie enprimes par la societe litteraire de Minerva, pour moi et ma famille' ) and asks for his thanks to be conveyed to the members of the society. With blank integral leaf (neatly inlaid). Several small ink annotations to the upper left corner and some very light staining, otherwise VG   Napoleon III went into exile in 1871, arriving in England on 20 th March. His family and entourage settled at Camden Place in Chislehurst, Kent.