THE PARISIAN UPHEAVAL OVERWHELMS EUROPE

"SADDLE YOUR HORSES, GENTLEMEN! FRANCE HAS DECLARED A REPUBLIC," CRIES THE TSAR INTERRUPTING A MAZURKA

He calls up the army but insurrections bar its way, and monarchists view the event with terror:

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 Le grand serpent de mer de 1848 / zoom

The serpent of revolution threatens the kings: Louis-Philippe, far right, has already lost his crown.

                                                             

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Rebels' tricolor flags follow the French banner:* Vertical stripes for a republic, horizontal for a monarchy — 

* Like most flags with blocs of three colors today (please scroll down).

-- Eric Hobsbawm, The Age of Revolution (1962)

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Berlin

Barricade on the Breiten Strass of Berlin in March 1848, artist unknown / zoom

Baden

  Death of General Friedrich von Gagern at the Bataille of Kandern, lithograph of the time / zoom

Vienne

        Barricade near the University, May 1848, lithograph of Franz Werner / zoom

    Serbia

The "May Assembly" of the Autonomous Region of Vojvodina by Pavle Simic / zoom

Venice

Daniele Manin proclaims the Republic of San Marco, March 22 mars, lithograph, toward 1850 / zoom 

Milan

Episode of the Five Days Milan by Baldassare Verazzi / zoom

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The pictures show almost all the rebels in frock coats and top hats:

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These are bourgeois insurrections

against monarchies that restrict

nascent capitalism. 

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Feudal monarchies emerge still stronger