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[[File:Franz_Xaver_Winterhalter_Napoleon_III.jpg|thumbnail|left|300px|Franz Xaver Winterhalter, French Emperor Napoleon III]] __NOTOC__
In 1862, French Emperor Napoleon III maneuvered to establish a French client state in Mexico, and eventually installed Maximilian of Habsburg, Archduke of Austria, as Emperor of Mexico. Stiff Mexican resistance caused Napoleon III to order French withdrawal in 1867, a decision strongly encouraged by a United States recovered from its Civil War weakness in foreign affairs.
