25 Feb 1848 Jahr - Republic declared; universal suffrage achieved
Beschreibung:
“At midday on 25 February the republic had still not been declared; however, the ministries had already been divided up among the bourgeois elements of the Provisional Government and among the generals, bankers and lawyers of the National. But this time the workers were determined not to tolerate any trickery like that of July 1830. They were ready to take up the struggle again and to gain a republic by force of arms. Raspail went to the Hôtel de Ville with this message. In the name of the Paris proletariat he ordered the Provisional Government to declare the republic; if this order from the people was not carried out within two hours he would return at the head of 200,000 men. The corpses of the fallen were scarcely cold, the barricades had not been cleared away, the workers had not been disarmed, and the only force with which they could be met was the National Guard. Under these circumstances the Provisional Government’s reservations, arising from diplomatic considerations and its legal scruples, disappeared. The time limit of two hours had not passed and on all the walls of Paris the gigantic, historic words shone forth:
République française! Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
With the proclamation of the republic based on universal suffrage even the memory of the limited aims and motives which had driven the bourgeoisie into the February revolution was forgotten. Not just a few fractions of the bourgeoisie but all classes of French society were suddenly propelled into the arena of political power; they were forced to quit the boxes, the pit, the gallery and to act for themselves on the revolutionary stage! The illusion of an arbitrary state power confronting bourgeois society had disappeared with the constitutional monarchy, as had the whole series of subordinate struggles provoked by this illusory power!”
p. 376-7
[according to Wiki universal male suffrage was not enacted until 2 March 1848]
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