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France was the only major European state to attempt to replace monarchical with republican government at the end of the eighteenth century. It took three revolutions, two monarchies, two empires and defeat in the war of 1870 before a republic proved sustainable. The purpose of this book is to try to explain why it took so long for a republic to become tolerable to the majority of the French.
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Pilbeam, P.M. (1995). The Republic: Idea and Image. In: Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871. European Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23860-6_1
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