history
Revolutions of 1848
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Social tensions
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Social tensions
Artisans
Workers
Peasants
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Social tensions
Political tensions
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Social tensions
Political tensions
Popular sovereignty
Civil liberties
Constitutions
Socialism
Nationalism
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Social tensions
Political tensions
Party of change versus party of order
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Uprisings in the Italian states
Liberal concessions
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Uprisings in the Italian states
Liberal concessions
Uprisings in France
Jules Gaildrau, Attack on the Chateau d’Eau, Place du Palais Royal, February 24, 1848
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Uprisings in the Italian states
Liberal concessions
Uprisings in France
The Second French Republic
Louis-Philippe arrives in Newhaven in 1848, after escaping Paris in Disguise
The National Workshops in Champs de Mars, Paris, 1848
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Uprisings in the Italian states
Liberal concessions
Uprisings in France
The Second French Republic
Uprisings in the German states
Liberal concessions
F. Werner, Barricade near the University on May 26, 1848, in Vienna, 1848
Outbreak of the Revolutions of 1848
Economic crisis
Uprisings in the Italian states
Liberal concessions
Uprisings in France
The Second French Republic
Uprisings in the German states
Liberal concessions
Frankfurt Parliament
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Legislatures
Mass political participation
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Legislatures
Mass political participation
Liberals move from the ‘party of change’ to the ‘party of order’
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Legislatures
Mass political participation
Liberals move from the ‘party of change’ to the ‘party of order’
Polarization
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Legislatures
Mass political participation
Liberals move from the ‘party of change’ to the ‘party of order’
Polarization
France: the June Days
Horace Vernet, Barricade rue Soufflot, June 1848
Divisions within the Revolutions of 1848
Multiple centers of power
Legislatures
Mass political participation
Liberals move from the ‘party of change’ to the ‘party of order’
Polarization
France: the June Days
German states: failure of the Frankfurt Parliament
End of the Revolutions of 1848: Conservative new order
Counter-revolutionary triumph
End of the Revolutions of 1848: Conservative new order
Counter-revolutionary triumph
German states: monarchs roll back the liberal concessions
End of the Revolutions of 1848: Conservative new order
Counter-revolutionary triumph
German states: monarchs roll back the liberal concessions
Austrian Empire: imperial army crushes all nationalist and liberal movements
End of the Revolutions of 1848: Conservative new order
Counter-revolutionary triumph
German states: monarchs roll back the liberal concessions
Austrian Empire: imperial army crushes all nationalist and liberal movements
France: coup d'état of Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (Emperor Napoleon III)
Alexandre Cabanel, Napoleon III, 1865
Imagery and Revolution in France
Nanine Vallain, Liberty (for the meeting hall of the Club des Jacobins) (1792)
(Cap and pike)
Marianne, symbol of the French Republic
Pierre-Paul Prud’hon, The Republic, with Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
(Republic has armor like Minerva, Liberty has the cap, Fraternity has a lion and lamb together, Equality has children representing the three social ranks)
Napoleon as Caesar on the Vendome Column
Palais Bourbon (France flanked by Liberty and Public Order), 1839-1841
July Column, on the Place de la Bastille (with the Spirit of Liberty)
February 1848: A government official puts a bust of Louis-Philippe on the shelf, next to that of Charles X, and selects a bust of a woman in a Phrygian cap, dated 1792 (on the shelf below sit Louis XVIII and Napoleon)
Cornu, The Republic, 1848 [Proclamation says Sovereignty of the People, has a sword in her belt]
The funeral chariot for the victims of the Glorious Days of 22, 23, 24 February 1848
The female figure at the front wears a Phrygian cap.
Sketch from the competition: Honore Daumier, The Republic, 1848
Winner of the sculpture competition, Jean-Francois Soitoux (no cap, but a sword protecting the constitution)
Seal of the Second Republic
(No cap, holding the fasces)
Francois Rude, La Marsaillaise, on the Arc de Triomphe
Diebolt, Grateful France
Produced for a ceremony at which prizes were distributed to French industrialists and manufacturers who had been successful at the Great Exhibition in London. (crown of laurel leaves)