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Offenbach became associated with the Second French Empire of Napoleon III ; the emperor and his court were genially satirised in many of Offenbach's operettas.
Napoleon personally granted him French citizenship and the Légion d ' Honneur.
With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, Offenbach found himself out of favour in Paris because of his imperial connections and his German birth.
He remained successful in Vienna and London, however.
He re-established himself in Paris during the 1870s, with revivals of some of his earlier favourites and a series of new works, and undertook a popular U. S. tour.
In his last years he strove to finish The Tales of Hoffmann, but died before the premiere of the opera, which has entered the standard repertory in versions completed or edited by other musicians.

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