Short answers, pulled from the story.
Charles-Louis Napoleon Bonaparte was born in Paris on the night of 19 to the 20th of April 1808. He spent his youth moving between Switzerland and Germany after his family fled France following the Battle of Waterloo.
He won the elections held on the 11th of December 1848 with 5,572,834 votes representing 74.2 percent of votes cast. This made him the highest vote-getter in the capital and allowed him to move his residence to the Élysée Palace at the end of December 1848.
Napoleon III encouraged the creation of new banks like Crédit Mobilier and expanded railway lines from 3,500 kilometers to 20,000 kilometers by 1870. He also backed the construction of the Suez Canal between 1859 and 1869 and reforested 10,000 square kilometers creating the Landes forest.
Georges-Eugène Haussmann served as prefect of the Seine department and planned the new city with the emperor. Eugène Belgrand built a new aqueduct bringing water from the Vanne River while Charles Garnier designed the Paris Opera.
He died on the 9th of January 1873 after going into exile in England following his release from German custody. His reign lasted twenty-two years making him the longest-reigning French head of state since the end of the ancien régime.