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Louis King of Holland's son may have had the last laugh with the rise to power in France of his son Napoleon III.
The Catholic Church probably did not suffer much with their
tithes during the reign of Napoleon III but were
dismayed by other acts of this "socialist Emperor".
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Napoleon's large-scale program of public works, and his extravagantly expensive foreign policy, had created rapidly mounting government debts; the annual deficit was about fr.100 million, and the cumulative debt had reached nearly fr.1 billion. The Emperor had full control of the budget, but was managing it poorly. He needed to restore the confidence of the business world, and to involve the legislature and sharing responsibility. Therefore, he renounced his right to borrow money when the legislature was not in session, and agreed the budget should be voted on item by item. Nevertheless, he retained the right to change the budget estimates section by section, thereby defeating parliamentary control and angering the parliamentarians. The opposition formed an increasingly powerful coalition, ranging from Catholics outraged by the Papal policies to Legitimists, Orleanists, protectionists and even some republicans. Napoleon's position was further undermined during the 1860s by his failures in foreign policy.
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There seemed to have been a lot of
cranky Frenchmen due to Napoleon III's various policies. His end became
closer when his policies clashed with those of Prussia.