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The French Republic under Cavaignac, 1848
By (Author) Frederick A. De Luna
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
944.07
Hardback
464
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
680g
General Louis Eugene Cavaignac has been a symbol of reactionary violence ever since he crushed the insurgent workers of Paris in the "bloody June Days" of 1848. Professor de Luna presents a fresh interpretation of the General, as well as a detailed examination of the turbulent year of European revolution, until Cavaignac was defeated by Louis Bonap