On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon\'s nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship.
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The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar - the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d\'etat.
Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852.
A year later, Louis Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III.
On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon\'s nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship