MEETINGS ARE FORBIDDEN
Banquets with after-dinner speeches replace them.
Banquet à Château-Rouge 9 juillet 1847 ("Banquet at Château Rouge July 9 1847") / zoom
La Révolution française de 1848 by Cesare dell'Acqua, 19th century / zoom
But the ambiance is "almost amiable." Demonstrators help an officer back on his horse and offer food to adversaries who release prisoners.
-- Amiability, Mon Père ("My Father") by Jean Renoir (1962);
-- Demonstrators, Souvenirs de 1848 by Maxime du Camp (1876)
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- Next morning barricades cover the city, from the streets near the palace to the underclass suburbs of the east:
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- A crowd advances toward the palace...
Le peuple marche vers les Tuileries à dix heures du matin le 24 février ("The people marche to the Tuilleries at ten o'clock in the morning on February 24") / zoom |
General Bugeaud, back from Algeria, prepares to attack. But the king does not give the order.
Louis-Philippe abdicates, murmuring, "Like Charles X, like Charles X!"* Later he will say, "Happy Republic, that can fire on the people!"
* The king overthrown in 1830
Proclamation de la République 24 février 1848 ("Proclamation of the Republic February 24 1848") by Jean-Paul Laurens, toward 1902 / zoom
"There were men bold enough
to proclaim their own names,
not on the barricade but in a newspaper office,
not on the site of combat
but in the defeated Chamber."
Russian socialist cited by Hazan, Histoire de la barricade
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