Second French Republic
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| République française | ||||||||||
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Motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité "Liberty, Equality, Fraternity" |
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Anthem Le Chant des Girondins "The Song of Girondists" |
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 Map of the French Second Republic
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| Capital | Paris | |||||||||
| Languages | French | |||||||||
| Government |
Semi-presidential republic (1848-1851) Presidential republic (1851-1852) |
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| President | ||||||||||
| • | 1848–1852 | Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | ||||||||||
| • | 1848 | Jacques-Charles Dupont (first) | ||||||||
| • | 1851 | Léon Faucher (last) | ||||||||
| Legislature | National Assembly | |||||||||
| History | ||||||||||
| • | French Revolution | 23 February 1848 | ||||||||
| • | Abolition of slavery | 27 April 1848 | ||||||||
| • | Constitution adopted | 4 November 1848 | ||||||||
| • | Coup of 1851 | 2 December 1851 | ||||||||
| • | Empire reestablished | 2 December 1852 | ||||||||
| Currency | French Franc | |||||||||
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| Today part of |
 France |
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The French Second Republic was the republican government of France between the 1848 Revolution and the 1851 coup by Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte which initiated the Second Empire. It officially adopted the motto Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. The Second Republic witnessed the tension between the "Social and Democratic Republic" (French: la République démocratique et sociale) and a liberal form of Republic, which exploded during the June Days Uprising of 1848.
The industrial population of the faubourgs was welcomed by the National Guard on their way towards the centre of Paris. Barricades were raised after the shooting of protestors outside the Guizot manor by soldiers.
On 23 February 1848 Guizot's cabinet resigned, abandoned by the petite bourgeoisie, on whose support they thought they could depend. The heads of the Left Centre and the dynastic Left, Molé and Thiers, declined the offered leadership. Odilon Barrot accepted it, and Bugeaud, commander-in-chief of the first military division, who had begun to attack the barricades, was recalled. In the face of the insurrection which had now taken possession of the whole capital, Louis-Philippe decided to abdicate in favour of his grandson, Philippe, comte de Paris.
The Republic was then proclaimed by Alphonse de Lamartine in the name of the provisional government elected by the Chamber under the pressure of the mob.
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