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  July Monarchy information - Search.com
The July Monarchy was established in France with the reign of Louis Philippe of France.
The "July Monarchy" was to last until 24 February, 1848 when the Second Republic was established.
During the years of the July Monarchy, enfranchisement roughly doubled, from 94,000 under Charles X to more than 200,000 by 1848.
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  July Monarchy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The July Monarchy was established in France with the reign of Louis Philippe of France.
The "July Monarchy" was to last until 24 February 1848 when the Second Republic was established.
The July Monarchy, time and time again, would push for legislation and reform measures aimed at increasing the stake of the bourgeoisie within the French government.
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 July Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The French Revolution of 1830, also known as the July Revolution, was a revolt by the middle class against Bourbon King Charles X which forced him out of office and replaced him with the Orleanist King Louis-Philippe (the "July Monarchy").
After fighting for three days against the troops feebly led by the Marniont of 1814, the workmen, driven to the barricades by the deliberate closing of Liberal workshops, gained the victory, and sent the white flag of the Bourbons on the road to exile.
The qualification for electors was lowered from 300 to 200 francs, and that for eligibility to 500 francs, and the age to 25 and 30 instead of 30 and 40; finally, Catholicism lost its privileged position as the state religion.
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 JO BURR MARGADANT | Gender, Vice, and the Political Imaginary in Postrevolutionary France: Reinterpreting the Failure ...
From the outset of the July Monarchy, partisans and enemies alike used the term "bourgeois" to characterize the new regime.
Throughout the July Monarchy, the campaign of insults directed against the king and royal family presumed an audience familiar with this vocabulary of "bourgeois" honor and dishonor.
His accidental death in July 1842, by contrast, exposed the monarchy to the inherent contradiction between the dynastic ambitions of the Orléans family and the bourgeois familial values they sought to represent.
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 2. The July Monarchy. 2001. The Encyclopedia of World History
The monarchy was marked by continued dissension on the Left and its overwhelming bourgeois character.
The period of July Monarchy experienced rapid industrial growth (600 steam engines in France in 1830, compared to 4,853 in 1847).
The resulting high infant mortality led the government to close many of these towers during the July Monarchy.
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 The Infography about the Art of the July Monarchy
The Art of the July Monarchy: France, 1830 to 1848, University of Missouri Press, 1990.
Hugh Collingham, The July Monarchy: A Political History of France, 1830-1848, Longman, 1988.
Robert Bezucha, The Lyon Uprising of 1834: Social and Political Conflict in the Early July Monarchy, Havard University Press, 1974.
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 French Revolution - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
During this time, republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the French sector of the Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo radical restructuring.
On July 11 1789, King Louis, acting under the influence of the conservative nobles of his privy council, as well as his wife, Marie Antoinette, and brother, the Comte d'Artois, banished the reformist minister Necker and completely reconstructed the ministry.
On July 14, 1790, and for several days following, crowds in the Champ-de-Mars celebrated the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille; Talleyrand performed a mass; participants swore an oath of "fidelity to the nation, the law, and the king"; the king and the royal family actively participated.
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 1849-50: The Class Struggles in France, 1848-50
Owing to its financial straits, the July Monarchy was dependent from the beginning on the big bourgeoisie, and its dependence on the big bourgeoisie was the inexhaustible source of increasing financial straits.
The July Monarchy was nothing other than a joint stock company for the exploitation of France's national wealth, whose dividends were divided among ministers, Chambers, 240,000 voters, and their adherents.
Just as the July Monarchy had to proclaim itself a monarchy surrounded by republican institutions, so the February Republic was forced to proclaim itself a republic surrounded by social institutions.
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 Paris (city, France) - MSN Encarta
Most of the events of the French Revolution, in which the French monarchy was overthrown in favor of a French republic, took place in Paris, and the event catapulted Paris into the modern age.
In July 1830 a crackdown on civil rights sparked the July Revolution in the streets of Paris, in which Charles X was overthrown in favor of Louis Philippe of the house of Orléans.
Louis Philippe’s reign, known as the July Monarchy, was marked by intensive industrialization in Paris and the spectacular increase of the population to over 1 million.
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 Printable Version on Encyclopedia.com
In the July Revolution of 1830, Louis Philippe was made lieutenant general of the realm and, with the support of the marquis de Lafayette, was chosen "king of the French." His reign, known as the July Monarchy, marked the triumph of the wealthy bourgeoisie and a return to influence of many former Napoleonic officials.
Although the constitutional charter of 1814 was revised (1830) in a liberal direction, the new legislature was unresponsive to the economic needs and political desires of the lower classes.
Louis Philippe was known as the "citizen king" because of his bourgeois manner and dress, and he and his regime were satirized by Honoré Daumier.
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 History of FRANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Eventually in desperation, on 26 July 1830, he dissolves the elected chamber, severely restricts the freedom of the press, and announces a new electorate limited to 25,000 grandees.
When he presents himself on July 31 at the Hôtel de Ville, Louis Philippe is wrapped in a tricolour.
It is dramatically increased in 1870 when news leaks on July 3 that a prince of the Prussian Hohenzollern family has been offered, and has accepted, the vacant throne of Spain.
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 July Revolution on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
JULY REVOLUTION [July Revolution] revolt in France in July, 1830, against the government of King Charles X.
Henri was set aside, and, although there was a movement for a republic, the duc d'Orléans was proclaimed (July 31) king of the French as Louis Philippe.
July days: memories of Britain's 'modern revolution.' (1945 elections that changed the ruling elite of the United Kingdom after World War II to the Labor Party)
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July 14 stands for the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, which has been commemorated for more than a century.
On the morning of July 14, the people of Paris seized weapons from the armory at the Invalides and then marched in the direction of an ancient Royal fortress, the Bastille.
A deputy for the Seine Department, Benjamin Raspail, moved that July 14 be named the national holiday of the Republic and Parliament passed an act to that effect on July 6, 1880.
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 H-France Reviews
Somewhat marginalised before 1830, republicanism was revitalized during the July Monarchy and became the expression of working-class revolt and aspirations.
The July Monarchy was an important moment in the period that Roger Magraw identified as “the age of artisan revolution” and culminated in the “artisan republic” of 1848.[2]
Indeed, violence was at the centre of the same debates during the July Monarchy as in 1793.
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Reading this pamphlet, one realized that even the ablest men of the ancien regime, as well as men who cannot be denied certain historical talents, have become so confused by the fateful events of that February that they have lost all sense of history and, indeed, no longer understand their previous actions.
In reality, however, the consolidation of the constitutional monarchy is only the beginning of the magnificent development and transformation of bourgeois society in England.
Under the constitutional monarchy, manufacturing at first expands to an extent hitherto unknown, only to make way for heavy industry, the steam engine, and the colossal factories.
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 Modern History Sourcebook: François Guizot: Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848
François Guizot (1787-1874): Condition of the July Monarchy, 1830-1848
It is on us, on the Revolution of July, that this job has been imposed; it is our duty and responsibility to establish definitively, not order alone, not liberty alone, but order and liberty at the same time.
There is the true promise of the Revolution of July.
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 © Background: The French Constitution   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The July Monarchy was established as a result of popular protests in Paris aimed against the Restoration monarchy under Charles X. Not just radicals but many bourgeois figures disliked the attempts by the restored monarchy to increase the power of the Catholic Church and the landed interests.
However, the men who made the July Monarchy had no wish to restore a republican system or to have too democratic a system of government.
For "liberals" who supported the new monarchy, just as for "conservatives" who had supported the Bourbon monarchy, there was a constant suspicion that greater freedom or decentralisation would simply provide new opportunities for popular and radical political movements to develop.
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 Manning Clark House - The Quest for a Universal Class
The strictures of Tocqueville and Marx on the July Monarchy indicate that they both detested the society spawned by the growth of the capitalist system in France.
Marx's appraisal of the July Monarchy was similar, although it pinpointed the leading role of what he called the finance aristocracy, an asset-stripping clique of shady nobles and corrupt businessmen, who were likened, in a somewhat shrill passage, to the lumpenproletariat, the urban under-class:
'The July Monarchy was nothing other than a joint-stock company for the exploitation of France's national wealth, the dividends of which were divided among ministers, Chambers, 240,000 voters and their adherents.
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 French Politics
The liberals were victorious, and after a brief period of confusion Louis Philippe was placed on the throne of the reformed monarchy.
It is true that some aristocrats withdrew from politics entirely, but the July Monarchy was still a government of the elite.
Ironically, the group that gained political participation in July 1830 was the part of the middle class that was least interested in politics - the wealthy businessmen and manufacturers.
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 Bastille Day | July 14, 1789 | Storming of the Bastille | French Revolution | History | France   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
It's like Independence Day in the US but this day remembers the end of the French monarchy and the beginning of the French Revolution.
Bastille was a prison where kings and queens usually locked up people who didn't agree with their decisions.
On July 14, 1789 the Revolution began when a large group stormed the Bastille prison.
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 H-France Reviews
The ostensible purpose of the second drawing, he argued, was to demonstrate that caricatures require fuller explanation to ensure that the object of derision is in fact someone in particular.
After a close analysis of these masterpieces of prose realism in their historical context, Petrey concludes, “History was culture in the early July Monarchy because the period’s most important and durable innovation, realist fiction, explores the same forms of socially constructed identity as its most significant political conflicts” (pp.
Similarly, in Stendhal’s other novel Lucien takes for granted the antithetical world of the July Monarchy, a regime he supported publicly first as a military officer and then as a government emissary, even at the expense of his love for Madame de Chasteller.
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 H-France Reviews
He begins with a discussion of revolutionary propaganda during the early days of the July Monarchy and proceeds to chart the various transformations undergone by the republican party up until the Commune.
In 1830, lines were clearly drawn between the revolution and reaction, but the experience of the July Monarchy proved that the nobility was no longer the enemy but rather the bourgeoisie.
Finally, in 1830 the republican left believed that revolution in France could lead to war between France and the European monarchies, whereas the republican party, decimated at the end of the regime, hoped for the reverse.
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 Street Scenes in Paris in the 19th Century: A Brown University Library Exhibit
Catalyzed by the decreasing popularity of Charles X and the continual economic hardships of the working class, the July Revolution of 1830, also known as “Les Trois Glorieuses,” ended the Bourbon monarchy and brought Louis-Philippe to the throne.
By July 29th, the third and final day of fighting, the throne of Charles X was clearly overthrown.
Nominated to be king on July 30, historical sources indicate that Louis-Philippe presented himself to the people at the Hôtel de Ville, known to be the “heart of Paris,” on July 31, rather than July 30 th as the engraving indicates.
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 Honore Daumier Exhibition, Masterworks Fine Art   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
In July 1830, a pro-republican revolution in French ousted the reigning king, Charles X, and the Bourbon regime.
Louis-Philippe's reign, known as the July Monarchy, lasted 18 years, from the revolution of 1830 to the revolution of 1848.
A majority of the members were Royalists who wanted to restore the monarchy and favored acceptance of the peace terms dictated by the Prussian prime minister, Otto von Bismarck.
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The method of working of the July regimes led to confusion on the identities of their leaders because the constitution had to be tailored to fit their needs.
The first Republic of Egypt, which was established after the overthrow of the monarchy in July 1952, played with the emotions of its people and suffered two defeats in 1958 and 1967.
The July regimes must take the blame for spreading political ignorance among Egyptians and turning them into herds of people, who care only for their bread and worry about how to earn a living.
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 NCAW Autumn 02 | Marijke Jonker on Gustave Planche   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Although Cousin also rose to a position of eminence after the July Revolution, Planche never came to doubt his integrity, as he had doubted that of the Romantic artists and writers who were favored by the July Monarchy.
During the July Monarchy, the government required history paintings to glorify events from the Revolutions of 1789 and 1830, commissions from Louis-Philippe's Museum generated a market for battle paintings, and landscape painters increasingly depicted the French countryside, around Paris.
Against the wish of the Academy, his paintings and those of Theodore Rousseau, which still retained much of the freshness of their sketches from nature, were shown at the Salon of 1831 as a demonstration of Louis-Philippe's liberal standpoint in artistic and political matters.
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 City Of Inverness
Novelist Owen Wister was born in Philadelphia on July 14, 1860.
Evans, who had begun working as a photographer in 1928, had developed a modest reputation by the time he was hired in October 1935 by Roy Stryker, leader of the FSA photographic unit.
On July 19, 1869, naturalist John Muir set pen to paper to capture his experience of awakening in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California.
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