Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, the nephew and heir of Napoleon I, was the first President of the French Republic and, as Napoleon III, the ruler of the Second French Empire. Napoleon III suffered from ailurophobia, which is the persistent, irrational fear of cats.
His fear of cats was widely known and once he ever entered a room, he would jump up on the footstool until the cat was removed from his sight.
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