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
2 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
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.
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