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22-24 February and 22-26 June 1848, the February Revolution and the Two Barricade Battles

  • Korean Review of French History
  • Abbr : KRFH
  • 2024, (51), pp.239~280
  • DOI : 10.51786/RCHF.2024.08.51.239
  • Publisher : KOREAN SOCIETY FOR FRENCH HISTORY
  • Research Area : Humanities > History
  • Received : August 11, 2024
  • Accepted : August 19, 2024
  • Published : August 31, 2024

Yun Kyoung KWON 1

1서울대학교

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ABSTRACT

In February 1848, France experienced the third revolution since 1789. Determined not to repeat the mistake of the July Revolution, when the revolution was “hijacked” and the monarchy returned, the Parisian people pressured the Provisional Government to declare the Second Republic. Parisian workers’ hope for a social revolution seemed to have come true as the rights of labor and universal suffrage for adult males were enacted in the immediate aftermath of the February Revolution. However, the moment of utopian ideals and enthusiasm was short-lived. By the bloody suppression of the June Uprising, the Second Republic asserted itself as a bourgeois republic for property and order. Why did the people who had created a republic together on the barricades of February have to shed so much blood over another barricades in June? This article focuses on the particular spatial dynamics of Paris in the 1840s and different experiences of the Parisian people from February to June around the barricades that were the symbol of the revolution. During the “Spring of Paris” from February to June, the economic situation was difficult, but the Parisian people were full of hope and enthusiasm that they would be able to establish a true republic of equality. This hope was dashed when it clashed with the realities of the representative Republic. The “barricades of triumph” of February thereby turned into the “barricades of despair” in June. But even after the defeat, their barricades lived for a long time on the memories of workers as the “repertoire of resistance.”

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