Napoleon was finally defeated at
Waterloo in 1815 and later exiled to the island of Elba. He died in 1821, and France returned to the
monarchy system (with some changes).
Louis XVIII took power and reigned for a whole decade during the Bourbon
Restoration, and it would not be until 1830 that the nation would rebel against
its current absolute monarch, Charles X, and institute a constitutional
monarchy. In 1848, revolution in France
would break out again (and all across Europe), and the nation would elect
Bonaparte's nephew and heir, Napoleon III, as president of the French Second
Republic. Three years later, Napoleon
III would establish the Second French Empire.
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