Coup of December 2, 1851
During the coup d'état on December 2, 1851 , the French President Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte dissolved the National Assembly and had leading opposition politicians arrested. The following bloody battles were finally won by Napoléon on December 5th.
After the successful referendum of December 21, 1851 on a new constitution and the plebiscite of November 21, 1852 on the reintroduction of the empire, Napoléon was finally proclaimed Emperor of the French on December 2, 1852 (the first anniversary of the coup), which led to the end of the Second French Republic, founded in 1848, and the beginning of the Second Empire .
In May 1852, Karl Marx published his analysis of this coup under the title The Eighteenth Brumaire by Louis Bonaparte .
prehistory
The July monarchy under King Louis-Philippe I lasted from 1830 to 1848. It ended with the establishment of the Second French Republic after the bourgeois February Revolution of 1848. The Second Republic, for its part, was unable to solve the serious economic problems and saw itself exposed to a revolt when the workers in Paris protested against the closure of the national workshops in the June uprising from June 22nd to 26th, 1848 .
literature
- Friedrich Heinrich Geffcken : The coup d'état of December 2nd, 1851 and its repercussions on Europe . Leipzig 1870.
- Eugen Tenot: Paris in December 1851 Hist. Study on d. Coup . German by Arnold Ruge . Leipzig and Heidelberg 1869.
- Attempt to present the latest history 1815–1871: 1848–1863 , Volume 17. Oberhausen and Leipzig 1875. Page 118 f.
- Letters from German begging patriots to Louis Bonaparte . Braunschweig 1873. p. 32 f.