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Universal suffrage and ‘the right to work’ were proclaimed at the outset as the two basic principles of the Second Republic. This chapter will consider the problems encountered in trying to implement them up to the end of April 1848, the first in the election of a Constituent Assembly, the second in controlling escalating unemployment in the capital and other major towns.
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Pilbeam, P.M. (1995). Universal Suffrage and the ‘Right to Work’: The Second Republic, February–April 1848. In: Republicanism in Nineteenth-Century France, 1814–1871. European Studies Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-23860-6_8
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