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Chapter 4 · 1830 to 1848

Barricade Summers

Three risings in eighteen years, a cholera summer between them, and a finale where the new republic turns its guns on the workers who made it.

Map
12 districts
Newspaper
The National
Street lighting
Gas lamps

The levels

  1. Three Glorious Days27 July 1830
  2. The Blue Fear26 March 1832
  3. The Cloister5 June 1832
  4. The Banquets9 July 1847
  5. February Fire22 February 1848
  6. The June Days23 June 1848
  7. Interlude 4
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The booklet opens

Prologue

One way “A Hundred Days” can end

The Eagle died on his throne, and his heir reigned over a tired country, governed by prefects and old marshals who remembered better days.

Otherwise

The kings came back, and with them the old families, the priests and the indemnities. The new king believed he had been sent by God, and he had the Charter only because his brother had signed it.

Paris had grown. Gas lamps went up along the boulevards; the faubourgs filled with workers from the provinces who slept six to a room.

This is the story of three risings in eighteen years, of the barricades that became the city's own architecture, and of a republic that turned its guns on the men who made it.

The factions

The Revolution

Liberals
Deputies, lawyers and journalists who want a wider franchise and an honest parliament, and are afraid of the faubourgs.
Republicans
The men of the sections and the workshops, who want the Republic and the right to work.
Secret Societies
Cells of the Seasons and the Rights of Man: oaths, passwords, gunpowder in the cellars.
Caricaturists
Lithographers and satirical papers who drew the king as a pear and paid for it in fines and prison.

The Law

The Crown
The king, his ministers and the narrow electorate of property that votes for them.
The Army
Regiments of the line and their generals, unhappy at being sent into the streets.
Municipal Guard
The prefecture's soldiers and sergents de ville, who know every street.
Prefecture agents
Informers in the secret societies, in the cafés and in the print shops.
The Bankers
Delorme and his friends: railway concessions, government loans and the advice to get rich.

Neutral factions

The Church
Shopkeepers
The opposition press
Ragpickers and smugglers
Foreign Powers
The faubourgs
National Guard
The propertied militia in its own uniforms. At a finale's midpoint it backs a side: four-Strength battalions in three of that side's districts.

Characters

  • King Charles-Henri
  • Louis-Ferdinand, the Citizen King
  • Casimir Delorme
  • Alphonse Delisle
  • Louis Brancard
  • General Eugène Lavergne
  • Lucien Marchal
  • Marguerite

The booklet closes

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Epilogue

If the Revolution won The June Days

The workshops survived the summer, and so did the idea that a republic owed its citizens work. The men of June went back to their trades and waited.

Otherwise

The republic of order elected a president with a famous name in December. Within four years he would make himself emperor, as his uncle had done.

The gas lamps burned all night on the boulevards now. In the faubourgs the oil lanterns still swung on their ropes, and the barricades were built from the same paving stones as before.