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Events on Sunday 10 December 1848 1
1848Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte elected President of FranceLandslide win in the first French presidential electionLouis-Napoléon Bonaparte, nephew of Napoleon I, won about 74 percent of the vote in the election of 10 and 11 December. He defeated General Cavaignac and Alexandre Ledru-Rollin. He seized dictatorial power in 1851 and made himself Emperor Napoleon III in 1852.