When the French King Louis Philippe—installed ... The better and more accurate term for 1848 is “defeat.” The Revolutions of 1848 were murdered: put down deliberately with overwhelming ...

While the motto of the French revolution was “liberty ... It was then reinstated by Napoleon in 1802 and abolished again in 1848. Less well known than the storming of the Bastille, are the ...

This is the story of the 1848 European revolutions, one of the most dramatic ... and in a series of tumultuous events, toppled the French monarchy, and forced reforms across Italy, Germany ...

The capture of the Bastille ignited one of the greatest social upheavals in Western history, the French Revolution. Violence spread to the countryside, where peasants demanded the feudal system be ...

The revolution of 1848 has been described as the revolution of the intellectuals ... the sense of possibility at a time when it was not yet clear that the Second French Republic had no future. By ...

Andrew Marr tells the story of the French Revolution. He explores the causes and events, Louis XVI’s failed escape and execution and Napoleon’s ascent to power. Warning: There are some violent ...