IV.1.2. REPUBLICAN MISUNDERSTANDINGS

MENU: 4.1.2. Republican misunderstandings

THE REBELS OF 1830 WERE ALL REPUBLICANS, THE HUMBLE FOLLOWING THE BOURGEOIS...

For awhile. 

Liberty Guides the People (detail) by Eugène Delacroix,1831 / zoom

Placing the worker behind the man in the top hat reveals the artist's prejudice (please scroll down). But it corresponds to the reality of 1830, when thousands of street fighters did follow about 200 students.

In brief

• Social classes whose interests diverge 

• Faceless poor and bourgeois heroes

• More on bourgeois heroes

• An intelligent ogre checks in

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Social classes whose interests diverge