Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An shirya juyin mulkin ne a hankali daga 20 ga Agusta 1851. Shirye-shiryen da shirin wannan juyin mulki ya faru a Saint-Cloud. Daga cikin masu shirya makircin akwai Jean-Gilbert Victor Fialin, amintaccen abokin Louis-Napoléon, Charles de Morny, ɗan'uwan Louis-Napoléon, da Janar Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud. A ranar 14 ga Oktoba, Louis-Napoleon ya nemi Majalisar ta dawo da kuri'ar maza ta duniya amma an ƙi wannan bukatar. An kuma yi watsi da bukatarsa na sake nazarin kudirin gyaran kundin tsarin mulki a ranar 13 ga Nuwamba. Shirya don bugawa, Louis-Napoleon ya nada Janar Saint-Arnaud a matsayin Ministan Yaki kuma an ba da wata sanarwa da ke tunatar da sojoji game da alkawarin da suka yi na "biyayya mara kyau". An nada mabiyan Shugaban kasa zuwa manyan mukamai daban-daban: Janar Magnan a matsayin Kwamandan Sojojin Paris, da Maupas, Prefect na Haute-Garonne a matsayin Prefect na 'Yan Sanda na Paris. Da yake ya tabbata cewa juyin mulki ba zai yuwu ba bayan kin amincewa na baya-bayan nan, Louis-Napoleon ya sanya ranar tunawa da nadin sarautar Napoleon a 1804, da nasarar a Austerlitz
a 1805, a matsayin ranar juyin mulki. An yi wa aikin baftisma Rubicon, yana nufin Julius Caesar.