A landslide election delivered authority without tools. Bound by a constitution designed to prevent a repeat of Napoleon I, Louis Napoléon governed against a ticking clock as the Assembly guarded itself against him. Foreign ventures reassured Catholics; suffrage rollback convinced him that legitimacy was being confiscated. This episode traces how mutual mistrust transformed democratic authorisation into paralysis and made legality itself the obstacle to governing. ➕ Follow us for daily Shorts and updates:
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