Who succeeded Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as President of France?
Marie François Jules Grevy
Adolphe Thiers
Patrice de MacMahon
Albert, duc de Broglie
Answer
Marie François Jules Grevy succeeded Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as President of France. Grevy was a lawyer and politician who had served as Speaker of the National Assembly. A moderate republican, he was elected president in 1879 after the collapse of the Second Empire. During his presidency, Grevy oversaw the establishment of the Third Republic and played a largely ceremonial role while the prime minister held the actual power.
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