June Days Uprising

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Painting of a barricade on Rue Soufflot (with the Panthéon behind), Paris, June 1848. By Horace Vernet.

The June Days Uprising (French: les journées de Juin) refers to the French workers' revolt from June 23 to June 25, 1848, after the closure of the National Workshops created by the Second Republic to give work to the unemployed. The repression, led by general Cavaignac, killed 1,500, while 15,000 prisoners were deported to Algeria. Cavaignac was then named head of the executive power while Louis Blanc was judicially persecuted by the government. This marked the end of the hopes of a "Democratic and Social Republic" (République démocratique et sociale) and the victory of the liberals over the Radical Republicans.

[edit] See also

• French Revolution of 1848
• History of the Left in France

[edit] External links

• Marx & Engels articles published from June to November 1848 in the Neue Rheinische Zeitung
• Les journées de juin 1848, K. Marx - F. Engels.