Western Civilization II / Unit 10 WC2 0930 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The June Days and Louis Napoleon
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The idea
The socialists' National Workshops cost too much for the liberals and were shut in June; thousands of Parisian workers died or were imprisoned in the June Days as peasant troops arrived by rail. Louis Napoleon won the presidency on his name.
In practice
The witness: the coup of fifty-one, Emperor Napoleon III in fifty-two.
Where people slip
The second democratic experiment ended in an emperor.
Your place on the trail
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