The Revolutions of 1848: The Great Storm That Swept France

This book takes the French Revolution of February 1848 as its central thread, analyzing the underlying conflicts and practical dilemmas between royal power and civil rights, conservatives and radicals, and monarchy and republic. It reveals the inevitable connection between these contradictions and the outbreak of the February Revolution, and details major historical events such as the banquet campaign, riots in the streets of Paris, the looting of the royal palace, the fall of the July Monarchy, the French king's exile in Britain, and the establishment of the provisional government of the French Second Republic.