Emperor Norton declared himself "Emperor of these United States" and "Protector of Mexico" in 1859 and 1866 respectively, it's a funny story, he did have chutzpah (he was Jewish after all), it's a funny story :
It's obviously BS, Norton wasn't Napoleon III, I just thought it was funny, I think Norton was LARPing as a French aristocrat at first, I may be thinking about another guy.
Emperor Norton declared himself "Emperor of these United States" and "Protector of Mexico" in 1859 and 1866 respectively, it's a funny story, he did have chutzpah (he was Jewish after all), it's a funny story :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Norton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y65Cv9COt34
Neat that you mention Norton, because I forgot about him until I saw him referenced on a Korean wiki (of all places!) while researching this post.
The Korean stuff I had planned for this post is going into a separate post, and I may bring up Norton as well.
I didn't know he was Jewish!
https://stolenhistory.net/threads/norton-i-and-napoleon-iii.6010/
It's obviously BS, Norton wasn't Napoleon III, I just thought it was funny, I think Norton was LARPing as a French aristocrat at first, I may be thinking about another guy.