Question

mention any two impacts of peasents uprising of 1848 on france

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On December 2, 1851, a new historical period begins, the Third Empire, which can be explained by that which has just passed between 1848 and 1851.

 

First of all, there is the habit of organizing a coup to circumvent constitutional constraints, a habit that goes back to 1792.

Since that date, no political power has had the time to take root before it is swept away by a gust of wind. Two political groups quarreled alternately power, the old Jacobins reconverted into socialist revolutionaries and the bourgeois who went from reasoned royalism to the republic of freedoms.

In December 1848, a new player changed the game, the conservative majority that has never managed to speak at the polls since April 1797 and this time seized the opportunity of the election of the President of the Republic to elect Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte unexpectedly.

Since the latter has seized the orders of the State, he has done everything to keep them, with the support of the majority of the population. This is why the coup d'etat of December 2, 1851 paradoxically has a democratic aspect.

For his part, Karl Marx in The Brumaire 18 of L. Bonaparte (Second Edition, 1869), to whom I borrowed the title of this blog, analyzes with great clarity the causes of the coup d'état, when he calls "peasant revolt" and his analysis is still relevant (it is I who underlines) when he mentions the power of state power in France and analyzes the origin of his power:

"This executive power, with its immense bureaucratic and military organization, with its complex and artificial state machinery, its army of officials of half a million men and its other army of half a million soldiers, a frightful parasitic body, which It covers the body of French society like a membrane and in the mouth all the pores, was constituted at the time of the absolute monarchy, the decline of the feudalism, which it helped to overthrow.

"The seigniorial privileges of landowners and cities were transformed into so many attributes of state power, feudal dignitaries into appointed civil servants, and the variegated map of conflicting medieval sovereign rights became the well-settled plan of a power of government. State, whose work is divided and centralized as in a factory.

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