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The June Days; Bonapartism; The Decline and Fall of the Second Republic

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Logically the decision of the new mass electorate to choose a Constituent Assembly containing a large majority of tepid post-February converts to republicanism meant that the new democratic Second Republic was likely to be stillborn. The républicains de la veille continued to hope that a republic would emerge, despite their minority position in the Assembly. They believed that a combination of ‘natural’ emergent republicanism and institutional change could confirm the republic. But divisions between long-term republicans, moderates and radicals were themselves becoming increasingly rigid. Given the composition of the Assembly, was it inevitable that France would have a conservative, near-monarchist, constitution?

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Pilbeam, P.M. (1995). The June Days; Bonapartism; The Decline and Fall of the Second Republic. In: Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871. European Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23860-6_9

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