法国末代皇帝 拿破仑三世 (Napoléon III)

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拿破仑三世（1808年4月20日－1873年1月9日），即夏爾·路易-拿破仑·波拿巴 (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte)，法国第二共和国总统 (法国第一任总统)，法国第二帝國皇帝 (法国末代皇帝)，為拿破仑一世之侄。1862年邮票， 1937年邮戳，谁有更早邮戳? 谁有更早期法国邮票的极限片？
Standing portrait of Napoleon III, wearing the uniform of a Général de Brigade, in his Grand Cabinet at the Tuileries Palace by Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin (1809-1864).
The Prince-President became ‘Emperor of the French' under the name Napoleon III. In 1853, he commissioned the specialist in religious painting, Hippolyte Flandrin, a pupil of Ingres's, to paint his portrait. Flandrin's painting is psychologically very acute and, despite its official character, it skilfully reveals Louis-Napoléon's complex personality. The artist even managed to catch the emperor's ‘distant and inscrutable' look. «This is without doubt the first ‘true' portrait we have of H.M.» declared Théophile Gautier. This ‘truth' however did not please Napoleon III; indeed so much so that the commission was cancelled. The emperor preferred the standing portrait by Winterhalter, now destroyed, with its more distinguished nobility and flattering idealisation. Napoleon III ended up however accepting Flandrin's painting. First presented at the London Universal Exhibition in 1862 and then later at the Salon of 1863, this portrait met with great public success. (http://www.napoleon.org/en/essen ... g/second_empire.asp)