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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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