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With the surprise of the fall of the July Monarchy, the republicans now in power hastened to put in place their humanitarian program. France at the same time was recovering from a severe economic depression and financial confidence was shaky, leading to the fear that this confidence would be definitively undermined by socialist measures fallaciously thought to come from Louis Blanc’s Luxembourg Commission. In spite of the republicans’ efforts, the election for the National Constituent Assembly in April 1848 brought in a large number of representatives of the people who had not been republican before 1848.
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Guyver, C. (2016). February. In: The Second French Republic 1848-1852. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59740-3_3
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