The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was

A) the platform of Louis Napoleon's party.
B) Louis Napoleon's call to the French people for support.
C) the official history of the events of the time.
D) Karl Marx's scathing account of Louis Napoleon's climb to power.
E) an anonymous pamphlet trying to equate Louis Napoleon with his more famous uncle.

Eighteenth Brumaire

The event on November 9, 1799, by the French Revolutionary calendar (Brumaire 18), when Napoleon Bonaparte overthrew the French government, establishing himself as the First Consul and leading to his eventual dictatorship.

Louis Napoleon

Napoleon III, the nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte, who became the first President of France and then Emperor, leading France during significant industrial expansion in the 19th century.

Karl Marx

A German philosopher, economist, and socialist revolutionary whose works, including the Communist Manifesto, laid the foundation for the theory and practice of communism.