Practice question · Put in order
Arrange the stages of the French sequence from 1848 to 1852.
- A coup dissolves the assembly and extends his power
- The June Days set the republic against the Parisian workers
- Louis-Philippe abdicates and a republic is proclaimed
- The Second Empire is proclaimed
- Louis-Napoléon is elected president by a large majority
Hints
- The sequence runs from a republic to an empire in under four years.
- The coup comes in December 1851 and the empire follows in 1852.
Show the answer
- Louis-Philippe abdicates and a republic is proclaimed
- The June Days set the republic against the Parisian workers
- Louis-Napoléon is elected president by a large majority
- A coup dissolves the assembly and extends his power
- The Second Empire is proclaimed
Why
The June Days are the hinge. Once the republic had shot down the workers who made it, its social base was narrow enough for a plebiscitary strongman to take it over with popular consent, and Louis-Napoléon won his elections and his plebiscites. The Second Empire is not the defeat of 1848 by the old order but by something new.
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