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French Revolution of 1848

The French Revolution of 1848 (French: Révolution française de 1848), also known as the February Revolution (Révolution de février), was a period of civil unrest in France, in February 1848, that led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic. It sparked the wave of revolutions of 1848.

For previous revolutions in France, see French Revolution and July Revolution.

French Revolution of 1848

22–24 February 1848

Paris, France
  • Abdication of King Louis Philippe
  • Abolition of the monarchy
  • Establishment of the republic under a provisional government

The revolution took place in Paris, and was preceded by the French government's crackdown on the campagne des banquets. Starting on 22 February as a large-scale protest against the government of François Guizot, it later developed into a violent uprising against the monarchy. After intense urban fighting, large crowds managed to take control of the capital, leading to the abdication of King Louis Philippe on 24 February and the subsequent proclamation of the Second Republic.

Rudin, the protagonist of 's 1856 novel of the same name, dies at the barricades of the revolution in the epilogue.

Ivan Turgenev

's 1869 novel L'éducation sentimentale uses the 1848 revolution as a backdrop for its story.

Gustave Flaubert

The character of Piotr Alejandrovitch Miusov, uncle and tutor of Dmitri Fyodorovich Karamazov in 's 1880 novel The Brothers Karamazov, hinted that he himself had almost taken part in the fighting on the barricades in the 1848 revolution.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

by Victor Hugo includes passages concerning the author's actions during the time of the revolution in Paris. It was published posthumously in 1887.

Choses vues

's 1893 Recollections (also known as Souvenirs) provides primary insight from a moderate liberal as he saw events unfold.[20]

Alexis de Tocqueville

's 1936 novel Summer Will Show uses the 1848 revolution as a primary part of the plot.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

's novel All This and Heaven Too (1938) uses unrest leading up to the 1848 revolution as a backdrop for its story.

Rachel Field

's 1995 novel Cosette uses the 1848 revolution as a primary part of the plot.

Laura Kalpakian

's 2007 novel Heyday begins with one of the protagonists witnessing and unintentionally participating in the 1848 revolution.

Kurt Andersen

(English: The Other Dumas), a 2010 French film directed by Safy Nebbou, depicts Alexandre Dumas in a fictitious involvement with a young female revolutionary.

L'Autre Dumas

The 2015 videogame is set in 1848 Paris, with the revolution kicking off during the game's third act. Depending on the player's actions, the revolution can turn out more or less violent than it did in real life.

Aviary Attorney

Proclamation of the abolition of the monarchy

Charles de Choiseul-Praslin

History of the French Left

Bourgeois revolution

by Christopher Clark

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Amann, Peter H. (2015). Revolution and Mass Democracy: The Paris Club of 1848. Princeton University Press.

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Beecher, Jonathan (2021). Writers and Revolution: Intellectuals and the French Revolution of 1848. Cambridge University Press.

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Clark, Timothy J. (1999). Image of the people: Gustave Courbet and the 1848 revolution. University of California Press.

Collins, Ross William (1923). Catholicism and the second French republic, 1848-1852. Columbia University Press.  16350140M.

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Coutant, Arnaud (2009). 1848, Quand la République combattait la Démocratie (in French). Mare et Martin.

Crook, Malcolm (2015). "Universal Suffrage as Counter-Revolution? Electoral Mobilisation under the Second Republic in France, 1848–1851". Journal of Historical Sociology. 28 (1): 49–66. :10.1111/johs.12035.

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Duveau, Georges (1966). 1848: The Making of a Revolution.

Fasel, George (Autumn 1974). "The Wrong Revolution: French Republicanism in 1848". French Historical Studies. 8 (4): 654–677. :10.2307/285857. JSTOR 285857.

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Fortescue, William (2005). France and 1848: The end of monarchy. Psychology Press.  978-0-4153-1462-6. OL 22622246M.

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Heywood, O. E.; Heywood, C. M. (1994). "Rethinking the 1848 Revolution in France: The Provisional Government and its Enemies". History. 79 (257): 394–411. :10.1111/j.1468-229X.1994.tb01606.x. JSTOR 24422386.

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Kim, Richard (2012). "Virtue and the material culture of the nineteenth century: the debate over the mass marketplace in France in the aftermath of the 1848 revolution". Theory and Society. 41 (6): 557–579. :10.1007/s11186-012-9176-6.

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Loubère, Leo (1968). "The Emergence of the Extreme Left in Lower Languedoc, 1848–1851: Social and Economic Factors in Politics". American Historical Review. 73 (4): 1019–1051. :10.2307/1847387. JSTOR 1847387.

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Merriman, John M. (1978). The Agony of the Republic: The Repression of the Left in Revolutionary France, 1848-1851. Yale University Press.

Moss, Bernard H. (1984). "June 13, 1849: the abortive uprising of French radicalism". French Historical Studies. 13 (3): 390–414. :10.2307/286299. JSTOR 286299.

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Price, Roger, ed. (1975). Revolution and reaction: 1848 and the Second French Republic. Taylor & Francis.

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Takeda, Chinatsu (2018). "The Reception of Considerations: A Constitutional Historiography of the French Revolution (1818–1848)". Mme de Staël and Political Liberalism in France. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 261–279.

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