V.4.2. A WORKERS' REVOLT ANNOUNCES THE FUTURE

BACKERS OF THE FIRST MASSIVE, CONSCIOUS WORKING-CLASS INSURRECTION CALL IT SIMPLY "JUNE" 

Insurrections once concentrated in artisans' faubourg Saint-Antoine near Bastille, now also erupt in the industrializing areas of the east:

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Barricades of June 1848

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Women fight much more than in 1830:

                 La Barricade de la porte Saint-Denis, Paris 1848 by William Edward Gabe / zoom

"At the moment when the leader dropped the flag, a young girl grabbed it and lifted it over her head, waving it in an inspired way. Hair flying, arms bare, wearing a scarlet dress, she seemed to defy death

"A shot rang out and she stumbled and collapsed. 

Another woman suddenly jumped to her side. With one hand she held the bleeding corpse, with the other she threw stones at the assailants. Another round was fired. She fell on the corpse she embraced."

--  Stern (my translation, slightly shortened) 

Discipline is evident as in February, despite the leaders' arrest: 

"They fought without leaders, yet with a unity and military experience that astonished the most elderly officers."

-- Toqueville (as for the next excerpts)

Workers' aim has immeasurably broadened:

"What distinguished them too was their goal, not to change the form of government, but to alter the order of society."

The modern accounts I have read skip this.

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Elites are terrified:

"In spite of its victory, all [privileged] society felt a dread that can only be compared to the invasion of Rome by the barbarians."

Reference to barbarians

 becomes constant in conservative texts.

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Next,

V.4.3.

The right changes too:

Provincial nobles answer the call...