In August 1840, Louis-Napoleon and his small force came ashore at Calais in five or six small boats. Their objective was simple: join up with the garrison at Boulogne, then march on Lille.
As early as 1793, France's Chappe brothers had set up a semaphore line between Paris and Lille. Humanity's early telegraph systems were not actually built to transmit military intelligence, but to provide the stock market with the latest news. If news of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo had reached Lille first, then been telegraphed to Paris, the Rothschild family, who received information by carriage, would have been seriously delayed. No one would have cared about the "trick" he pulled at the stock exchange.
When the Chappe brothers built their telegraph system, France was at war with Austria. Its original purpose was to relay to Paris the news that Condé-sur-Escaut had been captured from the Austrian army. After that, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, and Russia successively established similar relay telegraph systems. Telegraphs had entered human life far earlier than people imagined, even though Morse code would not be invented until 1837.
Louis-Napoleon's operation in Lille failed. He nearly died in a hail of bullets while trying to escape. Though he jumped into Transoxiana, he was still arrested by the gendarmes. The next day, Paris newspapers reported the incident and called Louis-Napoleon a dangerous madman, utterly ruining his reputation.
This time, the king did not let him go. He was imprisoned and sentenced to six years behind bars. Louis-Napoleon did not see this imprisonment as the end of his life, but as a rebirth. He gave up inciting uprisings and turned instead to writing. The Extinction of Pauperism was written during his confinement.
Besides that, he also invented Bonapartism. If the staunch supporters of Napoleon I had been peasants,