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Napoleon the Third in Brighton

March 21, 2021 / suzannethinton / Leave a comment

Napoleon the Third was well established in Brighton from the mid-1850s and was there for nigh on one hundred years.  That is to say, a beer seller, Arthur Hollingbrook at 13 Cheapside, decided to celebrate the coming of the second French Empire and its emperor by renaming his beer house as the ‘Napoleon the Third’. 

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