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A New Look at the French Revolution of 1830

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

David H. Pinkney
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Among the revolutions in France since 1789 one, the Revolution of 1830, has been singularly neglected by historians in this century, and neither in this century nor the preceding one has it attracted much attention from any but the political historians. No monograph on the whole story of the Revolution has ever been published, and the standard account, in Lavisse's Histoire de France contemporaine, appeared nearly forty years ago. The economic and sociological dimensions of the event have been generally ignored. Consequently, the Revolution of 1830 is ordinarily seen as a political movement arising out of the unpopularity of Charles X and his ministers and out of their attempt to arrogate the sovereign power to the crown.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1961 , pp. 490 - 506
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1961

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* This article was originally presented, in somewhat different form, as a University Lecture at the University of Michigan on February 12, 1959.

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