Which problem began to arise in the French Empire under Napoleon?

Answer 1

Despite his earlier popularity, Napoleon III began to earn the hostility of seactions of the French population for a number of reasons. Here are some important ones:

A. Advocates of a more democratic government realized that Napoleon III ran a basic Dictatorship disguised as a democratic form of government;

B. A number of Frenchmen believed that Napoleon's aid to Italy's unification would become a threat to futher Church control of Italy;

C. Friends of France's expansionist foreign policies were unhappy by France's failed policy in Mexico;

C1. In 1863, with the United States distracted by its Civil War, France invaded Mexico and placed their puppet, the Hapsburg Maximilian in charge. By attempting to control Mexico, a fact that anti manifest destiny & Monroe Doctrine foes seemed to forget, caused a concern for the USA. In 1865, at the end of the Civil War, the USA placed an army on the Mexican border and pressed the French to vacate. Napoleon III agreed to withdraw but Maximian remained and Mexican troops executed him.

D. In an ill conceived plan, Napoleon III, tried to check the power of Prussia in Europe. He was opposed ( and rightly so ) by the Prussian general Bismark, who sought to unify Germany. The result was the Franco-Prussian war, 1870-1871, in which the Prussians crushed the French army.

Napoleon was catured by French nationialists ending his rule.

Answer 2

The Franco-Prussian War

Answer 3

Nationalism