| André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri The Imperial family 1858-1859 Carte de visite Paul Frecker LL/13385 Napoléon III grasped the power of manipulating his public image through visual propaganda, and firmly embraced the medium of photography. Despite his string of mistresses, he presents himself here as the apogee of bourgeois respectability and moral probity, the archetypal family man.
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