In 1848, before the age of the 'new imperialism', France already claimed an overseas empire extending from the Americas to Africa and the Indian Ocean. The sole North American possession France ...

ON February 22, 1848, Richard Rush, the American Minister to the Court of the Tuileries, noted in his diary that he had just returned from a soirée at the Roche-foucaulds'. The party was not large but ...

The 3 August 1848 issue of the New Era of Industry (Vol. 1 No. 9). The Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37 - 24 March 1848) The 24 March 1848 issue of the Voice of Industry (Vol. 3 No. 37). This is a ...

Behind the reflection contained in Mörike's Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag (1855) on the French Revolution, the social process leading to it and links with Mozart's art, there lie memories of and ...

“The French are better at fighting revolutions than making reforms,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville in his notes in 1848. As a government deputy, he would walk through revolutionary Paris wrapped in his ...

The people under arms, with the National Guard, hasten towards the Tuileries. They met with a deadly resistance at the guard house of the Chateau d'Eau. No engagement occurred. The assailants, under a ...

Most revolutions do have specific goals and demands, most of the successful ones do have organized leadership that can mobilize at least a dedicated cadre of followers, and most have some idea what ...

Ascene in front of the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, 1848: standing on an armchair taken from inside the building, Alphonse de Lamartine addresses the crowd. Around him are the men of the newly formed ...

"This historical picture was painted by Phillippoteaux, the celebrated artist of Paris. The scene is drawn on the great square of the Hotel de Ville, as taking place on the 24th of February, 1818: " ...