Les élections législatives dans les Alpes-Maritimes sous le Second Empire L’apprentissage de la candidature officielle

“The Second Empire appears […] like a sort of golden age of official candidature, and a period of expanding material and human means”. How did such practices take root in the département of the Alpes-Maritimes ? How was this adaptation to French political and imperial norms, presented as one of the advantages of the annexing, realised ?