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Prince-President: Élysée Residence and Style

When: December 1848
Where: Élysée Palace
Part of: Founding of the French Second Republic and Election of Louis-Napoléon

Following his election, Louis-Napoléon moved to the Élysée Palace in late December 1848 and adopted the style of Prince-President.

Louis-Napoléon moved his residence to the Élysée Palace at the end of December 1848, hanging a portrait of his mother in the boudoir and a portrait of Napoleon I, in his coronation robes, in the grand salon. He adopted the title of Prince-President, styled 'His Imperial Highness, the Prince-President of the French Republic'. The title 'Napoleon III' is anachronistic for this period.

Sources

Napoleon III Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-04

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