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Second Empire

Second Empire may refer to:

  • Second British Empire, used by some historians to describe the British Empire after 1783
  • Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)
  • Second French Empire (1852–1870)
    • Second Empire architecture, an architectural style associated with the Second French Empire
  • Second German Empire, sometimes used to describe the German Empire between 1871 and 1918
  • Second Empire of Haiti (1849–1859)
  • Second Mexican Empire (1864–1867)
  • Second Persian Empire, sometimes used to describe the Parthian Empire (ca. 247 BC – 224 AD)
  • 2nd Empire Awards, film awards held in 1997

Usage examples of "second empire".

As each Texas ship was emptied of frozen meat, it locked with a second Empire freighter to take on ingots of pure metals, then blinked, alone, into the emptiness.

A Second Empire will rise, but between it and our civilization will be one thousand generations of suffering humanity.

Last night I prayed for guidance, and it came to me that our Second Empire must also have its birth in the blood of its enemies, on the site where the First Empire was born.

Could the Second Empire long endure now that its last hero had fallen?

It is at the period of coalescence, when the Second Empire that is to be is in the grip of rival personalities who will threaten to pull it apart if the fight is too even, or clamp it into rigidity, if the fight is too uneven.