Person1773 – 1850
Louis Philippe I
The “Citizen King” of France (1830–1848) placed on the throne by the July Revolution; his July Monarchy rested on the wealthy bourgeoisie and fell in the February Revolution of 1848
Where they went
3 related events
- 1
Parisians drove out the reactionary Charles X after three days of street fighting. Louis Philippe took the throne as the “Citizen King”, founding a constitutional monarchy (the July Monarchy).
- 2
In June 1832, with cholera sweeping Paris, republicans raised barricades against the July Monarchy after the funeral of General Lamarque. Crushed within two days, the rising is the setting of the barricade scenes in Hugo’s Les Misérables.
- 3
Parisians and workers demanding a wider franchise overthrew the July Monarchy and founded the Second Republic. Universal male suffrage was introduced, and revolution spread across Europe.
Related works
- Book: Les MisérablesDramatizedBook · 1862 · Victor Hugo
Dramatized works (films, dramas, novels) may differ from the historical record.
People who appear alongside
- Napoleon III1808 – 1873
Louis-Napoléon, nephew of Napoleon I, elected president in 1848, who made himself emperor (1852–1870) by a coup but was captured in the Franco-Prussian War and deposed
Themes this person appears in
- Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871
From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states