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This French-language catalogue was published for the exhibition Napoléon III et les principautés roumaines presented at the National museum of Art of Romania, Bucarest until 1 February 2009, then at the national museum in the Compiègne castle from 21st March to 29th June 2009. At the beginning of the 19th century, nationality issues haunt many European peoples. In France, Napoleon III advocates the people's right to dispose of itself. He uses his influence to encourage the union merging of two Romanian principalities, Moldavia and Walachia, first by supporting the Francophile Alexandru Ioan