Abstract: The events and significance of the 1830 revolution in France have been largely ignored by academics and social commentators. The most recent account in French was written in the immediate aftermath of the strikes and riots of 1968,1 while the most comprehensive version in English remains that of David Pinkney, now translated into French.2 The French are inclined to be somewhat dismissive or even embarrassed when discussing the 1830 revolution. Curiously, despite a generation of intense ‘revision’ of 1789, from which the middle classes have been almost banished, 1830 is still frequently designated as a ‘bourgeois’ revolution. French thinking on the ‘Three Glorious Days’ is dominated by the contrasting views of the modern Catholic historian of the Restoration, Bertier de Sauvigny, for whom the revolution was a brief and unfortunate Parisian aberration, and Karl Marx, for whom it was a stage in the inevitable accession to power of an entrepreneurial bourgeoisie. The revolutions in the rest of Europe in 1830 have also been overlooked, with the exception of one recent pioneering investigation.3
Publication Year: 1991
Publication Date: 1991-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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