Second Empire

will end as it began, by a parody — a ferocious farce that Europe's ruling classes let run for eighteen years.

Recast in definition form from: “It will end, as it began, by a parody. But let us not forget that it is the governments and the ruling classes of europe who enabled Louis Bonaparte to play during 18 years the ferocious farce of the Restored Empire.”

had the coup d'état for its birth certificate, universal suffrage for its sanction and the sword for its sceptre.

Recast in definition form from: “The empire, with the coup d’etat for its birth certificate, universal suffrage for its sanction, and the sword for its sceptre, professed to rest upon the peasantry, the large mass of producers not directly involved in the struggle of capital and labor.”

empire

Karl Marx

bonapartism

Napoleon III

dictatorship

France

Revolutions of 1848

Paris Commune

disciplinary regime

discursive regime

harmonic regime

information regime

Khmer Rouge

modern health regime

regime of art

regime of living

regime of practice

regimes of living

representative regime of art

scopic regime of the cinema

second empire, n.Definitions

second empire