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Which Austrian archduke was installed by Napoleon III as the Emperor of Mexico during the short-lived Second Mexican Empire in the 1860s?

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Maximilian I

Maximilian's reign ended in 1867 when he was captured and executed by forces loyal to the republican president Benito Juárez.

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