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Republicanism, liberalism and the Revolution of 1848

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2009, (21), pp.77~96
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History

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ABSTRACT

What is the republic and the republicanism of France in the first half of the 19th century? To answer this question, we approach the history of 1848-1852 on the assumption that the revolution of 1848 was a reaction against the ‘Guizot system,’ fundamentally hostile to universal suffrage, to democracy, to popular sovereignty. Maurice Agulhon, an authority on the French history of the 19th century, explains the process of the revolution of 1848 as an apprenticeship of the Republic, while K. Marx merely interpreted it as that of class struggle. On the one hand, the former has been stressing the importance of ‘Nation’ as well as ‘class’ as the tool of historical analysis, on the other hand, the latter attached great importance only to that of ‘class’. We conclude that the revolution of 1848 was an indispensable experience for French republic to be a moral civilization rather than only a regime, a doctrine, a philosophy, a system and a culture.

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