Arthur O’Connor

1966 ◽  
Vol 15 (57) ◽  
pp. 48-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank MacDermot
Keyword(s):  
Second Empire ◽  
July Monarchy ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
First Empire ◽  
Obituary Notice ◽  
United Irishmen

Arthur O’Connor, or more correctly Conner, is now little remembered, but from 1795 to 1798 no leader of the United Irishmen had more prestige and influence than he. In England he was the darling of the Foxite whigs. In France he played a part in procuring the expedition to Bantry Bay. In Ireland he inspired and organised rebellion. He suffered nearly five years imprisonment, narrowly escaped the gallows and spent the last fifty years of his life in exile. There he was made a général de division by Napoleon, was intimate with Lafayette, Volney, and the idéologues, and married the daughter of Condorcet and niece of Grouchy. He lived through the last days of the consulate, and all of the first empire, the restoration, the hundred days, the second restoration, the July monarchy and the second republic to die tranquilly at the dawn of the second empire. An obituary notice in The Nation sang his praises.

Revisiting French Foundational Republicanism from a Non-teleological Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pablo Facundo Escalante
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
Political Regimes ◽  
July Monarchy ◽  
First Empire ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
French Republicanism ◽  
The Will ◽  
Bourbon Restoration

French republicanism is traditionally considered not only the logical outcome of the principles of 1789 but also their main political goal in the long term. Since the revolutionary outbreak, France would have been destined to become a republic, and the consecutive republican regimes that shaped its history seem to support that interpretation. However, considering the formidable weight of the centuries-old French royalist tradition, it is difficult to believe that the French gave up kingship once and for all in the span of the first three revolutionary years and that the First Empire, the Bourbon Restoration, the July Monarchy, and the Second Empire were political regimes imposed only by force, against the will of the French, who only wanted a republican form of government. Driven by these reflections, this article attempts to propose a different interpretation of French republicanism.

Repressive Strategies and Working-Class Protest

1980 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-55
Author(s):  
Robert Liebman
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Second Empire ◽  
July Monarchy ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Coup D'etat ◽  
History Of ◽  
Socialist Movement ◽  
Revolution Of 1848

Much of political sociology has its roots in the history of the French Revolution of 1848. Between the collapse of the July Monarchy in February 1848 and the proclamation of the Second Empire in December 1852, powerful factions vied for control over the state. The outcomes were uncertain until the coup d’etat of December 1851 ended the Second Republic and secured the control of the Bonapartist party. Generations of analysts would carry on the debates of contemporaries over the failure of the working class to take state power in the months following the February Revolution.Among contemporary interpretations, the most enduring was offered by Karl Marx. In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Marx (1963) traced the shifting coalitions of class actors against the background of events which culminated in the demobilization of the democratic-socialist movement and the coup d’etat.

The Theological Revival in The French Reformed Church, 1830–1852

1968 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49
Author(s):  
J. Lynn Osen
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
July Monarchy ◽  
Second Republic ◽  
Financial Position ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
The French Revolution

The French Reformed Church merged from the period of the French Revolution and Napoleon stengthened by government recognition and support but weakened by the ideological offensive of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Although it enjoyed a secure official and financial position, it had yet to reconcile itself intellectually with the contrasting currents of eighteenth-century rationalism and nineteenth-century romanticism. This process of assimilation and reconciliation took place after 1815 and culminated, during the July Monarchy and the Second Republic, in a theological awakening and renewal.

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