Flowers, Swords and France

"We are free!"

"Long live the Republic!"

"Long live the revolution!"

"Down with the tyrant!"

Cheers came and went in the Place de la Bastille. Workers, students, and even women cheered like crazy, waved their flags, and hats were thrown into the sky. .People who had never met each other hugged each other as if they were lifelong friends. Some young men and women even kissed passionately.

In the Place de la Bastille, the revolution had turned into a final hurrah.

Finally, the carnival reached its climax.

"Woo!" Amidst bursts of tuneless cheers, several people lifted the throne and threw it on the pyre under the martyrs' monument. Revelers gathered around the pyre and cheered wildly, just like watching a burning in the Middle Ages. The witch scenes are average.

King Louis-Philippe abdicated and fled Paris to live in exile in England. After learning the news, the people who besieged the palace rushed into the Tuileries Palace without any resistance. After a big celebration, they also carried out the throne inside and sent it to the Bastille. The square was prepared to be burned under the Martyrs' Monument as a final celebration of the revolution and as a symbol - as they understood it - of the elimination of the monarchy.

The torch was thrown into the pyre, and the flames quickly shot up, then swept towards the throne, eliciting deafening cheers.

"Long live the Republic!"

The rising flames turned everyone's face red, and also triggered a medieval-style fanaticism in their hearts, as if a demon had really been destroyed.

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Ciel, who was standing on the edge of the square, watched this scene calmly without saying a word.

But his hand was clenched tightly by the person next to him. As the scene slowly reached its climax, the force exerted on his arm became stronger and stronger, causing him pain.

"You're trying too hard, Charlotte." He couldn't help but remind him gently.

"Did you bring me here just to let me watch this? To watch them show off their victory and watch these mobs go crazy?" Charlotte asked Ciel through gritted teeth, her eyes full of anger, "There are still What other purpose?"

She was angry now, very angry.

If she was unhappy that she was not able to lead the crowd into the palace and cut Louis-Philippe into pieces, the scene in front of her had obviously aroused her overwhelming anger.

Ciel returned his gaze to the center of the square.

"Shouldn't we see their power?"

"Power?" Charlotte smiled sarcastically, and then scanned the front hatefully, "Just wait and see, we will be able to clean them soon."

Ciel didn't answer, he didn't want to argue with Charlotte on this topic anymore.

However, Charlotte continued to speak.

"Charles, I said, you always don't remember who you are. Don't forget, you are one of us, you are not a revolutionary party! Do you think you can still play Jacobin? It's a joke! That vicious dog's father actually tried it, but was sent to the guillotine!" She raised her hand and pointed at the people cheering around the fire with an expression of contempt and hatred, "Don't forget, right here. That was the year! Amidst the cheers! Our King is guillotined, and our ancestors! Their cheers mean that we will bleed, and nothing else. We must either rule them, or kill them, or be killed by them, There is no other way to go. Since you are born into a family like ours and a class like ours, you should have this kind of consciousness, right? Let go of your ridiculous ideas!"

"Of course there is another way!" Charles couldn't help but roared to refute her.

"No!" Charlotte stared back at him not to be outdone.

The two people glared at each other again, just like before.

After glaring at each other for a while, Ciel withdrew his gaze and regained his original demeanor.

"Well, after all, our victory cannot be determined by words." He nodded slightly, then withdrew his hand, "I wish you good luck in the future."

"I also wish you good luck." Charlotte nodded equally expressionlessly.

Then she turned around, looked at the people reveling in the square again, and then clenched her fists again.

"You can't escape..."

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At this time, in the Paris City Hall, the invisible revolution is still going on.

As the main force of the uprising, representatives of the Paris working class were of course invited to join the ranks of people's representatives. Coming from poor backgrounds, it was the first time in their lives that they were invited to such a grand event. Of course, they were a little dizzy. For the first time, they felt that "they are the masters of the country" - although this time it was just an illusion.

They were greeted by extremely friendly representatives from the legal and economic circles. They had a great conversation, and one of them was even a little flattered. Together they formed a meeting. Under the leadership of Mr. Jacques de Leur, who was elected as the leader of the provisional government, these representatives quickly selected candidates, formed a new provisional government, and took over Louis Philippe The power vacuum created after abdication.

"The Republic will grant citizens universal suffrage!"

"The Republic will abolish the salt tax and other exorbitant taxes!"

"The Republic will hold nationwide parliamentary elections and establish a Constituent Assembly on May 4!"

Under the strong demands of the representatives, one policy after another was passed from the conference room to the outside world, triggering waves of cheers from the people gathered outside.

The new French Republic seemed to have received unanimous expectations and blessings from the beginning.

However, when the representatives of the proletariat hesitantly proposed to change the flag of the Republic to the red flag widely used in the revolution, other representatives strongly opposed it, and they had to withdraw their proposal and defaulted to the tricolor flag as the flag of the Republic.

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This symbolic failure was more or less willingly accepted by the representatives of the proletariat, and was soon supplemented and interpreted by the failure of the real name.

In the selection of the next cabinet members of the government, due to "lack of management experience and governance experience", the representatives of the proletariat were forced to give up every cabinet position.

In the end, what did the workers and the poor of Paris get?

In addition to countless empty promises and temporary measures that seemed very beautiful, only two of them, Louis Blanc and Albert, were absorbed into the New Deal, and not as members of the cabinet, but as the chairman and vice chairman of the newly established "Provisional Labor Committee".

[Louis Blanc (jeanjosephcharles) is a French utopian socialist and historian. He sympathized with the treatment of workers at the time and had socialist ideas, but was limited to the theoretical level. He advocated class reconciliation and reformism. The social reform plan he formulated was to gradually replace private workshops with "social workshops" as a new type of social production organization, and finally establish an ideal society with universal economic equality and social equality. After the February Revolution in France in 1848, he was responsible for presiding over the practice of the Provisional Labor Committee (also known as the Luxembourg Committee because its office was placed in the Luxembourg Palace), which ultimately failed. ]

All important positions in the cabinet were occupied by the bourgeoisie. The historian Lamartine served as Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the wealthy lawyer Ledru-Rollin served as Minister of the Interior. Some of them were even collaborators of the July Monarchy.

The fruits of the revolution have been usurped, but the party whose fruits have been usurped is still unaware and still thinks that they are still one of the winners.

At this time, the shadow of 1789 is still lingering in the hearts of all the French proletariat. They think that Louis XVI, who was beheaded that year, and Louis-Philippe, who was driven away at this time, are the same thing, and the revolution of 1789 and the revolution of 1848 are also the same thing. Little do they know that the two dynasties have long been very different - in this country, the bourgeoisie has long been sent to the altar through the storm of those twenty years, but they still think that as long as they are not nobles, they will stand together...

In a few months, they will understand what this naive idea will ruin! They will also understand what these bourgeoisie who are smiling at them gently at this time are!

At this time, they are cheering and throwing the king's throne into the raging fire, but they are not aware enough to understand that the essence of power is not attached to the lifeless chair, but in the institutions of the state power. Unknowingly, they lost miserably in the real power field, but they still thought they had won.

In this way, the Second French Republic was established on the ashes of the July Monarchy.

When Charles heard the news, he had said goodbye to Charlotte and returned to his home.

He was now full of emotions.

The French Revolution of 1848 was over, but not in the way people usually thought, nor at the time people thought.

The revolution broke out on February 22, 1848, and the revolution was dead on February 25, 1848.

The great wave that swept across Europe this year left France with only three days. From the day the provisional government of the French Republic, which had secretly completely excluded the influence of the proletariat, was established, the revolution was dead. What was left was only the residual heat on the corpse and the conditioned reflex of natural spasms.

However…

It was these people, the people he saw with his own eyes, who marched towards the king’s guns with fearless spirit, fearless of sacrifice, and marched forward bravely, defeating a government and driving away a monarch. For the first time, a class truly tasted its own power. Although the price was so shocking, it was enough to scare any subsequent French rulers, and the whole of Europe would probably be terrified by what happened in these three days!

After this, Louis Bonaparte could only play the role of the emperor of the French, but he could no longer claim that he was only responsible to God like the Bourbon king.

It was betrayed, but it was still great.

Is it a revolution?

It is a revolution. (To be continued.)