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(Engraving representing) Universal Suffrage, on the 10th of December 1848, & the Election of Louis Napolèon Bonaparte as president

By Frederic Sorrieu

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I was fortunate enough to visit the Danish War Museum in Copenhagen, where I saw something that surprised me; a Marshal's Baton.

Now I Initially thought that this was one of the few models of items they had in the museum. That was until I saw its description, where it names the original owner of the baton, an A.J.A.L de Saint-Arnaud.

I was also fortunate to have dates, which made it easier to find his full name; Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud, a marshal during the Second French Republic.

My big question is how the heck did such a piece find itself in Denmark? I can think of a handful of reasons, but none of which I can find answers to on the English side of the internet.

It's just something interesting I found, especially since it caught me off guard. I'll probably post more of the pictures from that museum soon, at least if anyone is interested.

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Only one must not get the narrow-minded notion that the petty bourgeoisie, on principle, wishes to enforce an egoistic class interest. Rather, it believes that the special conditions of its emancipation are the general conditions within whose frame alone modern society can be saved and the class struggle avoided. Just as little must one imagine that the democratic representatives are indeed all shopkeepers or enthusiastic champions of shopkeepers. According to their education and their individual position they may be as far apart as heaven and earth. What makes them representatives of the petty bourgeoisie is the fact that in their minds they do not get beyond the limits which the latter do not get beyond in life, that they are consequently driven, theoretically, to the same problems and solutions to which material interest and social position drive the latter practically. This is, in general, the relationship between the political and literary representatives of a class and the class they represent. — Karl Marx, Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon. 1852.

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President Louis Napolèon Bonaparte (Napolèon III) , place de la Concorde, December 2, 1851

Reviewing the mobile gendarmerie, acclaimed by the crowd, In the company of Prince Jérôme accompanied by his staff.

By Victor de JONQUIERES

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The barricade on rue de la Mortellerie, June 1848 , known as Souvenir of the Civil War

By Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier

As an artillery captain in the National Guard, Meissonier witnessed the June 1848 events himself, when General Cavaignac’s forces put down the Paris uprising. He recorded what he saw in a small painting that feels almost like a news report. Its strict realism is so sharp and unembellished that it resembles a daguerreotype. Delacroix himself remarked, “It’s horribly true.”

The setbacks and disillusionments of the 1848 Revolution and the Second Republic helped Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte rise politically. He gained support from different parts of society: the bourgeoisie, who feared revolutionary unrest; the rural population, often skeptical of the Republic; and even some workers, drawn to his promises of social reform. On December 10, 1848, he was elected President of the Republic.

Meissonier’s depiction of the barricade also seems to anticipate a further violent crackdown: the repression that came after the coup d’état of December 2, 1851. That event would set the tone for the emerging imperial regime, leaving it marked from the start by a distinctive and troubling stain.

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(Engraving) Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte, guided by the Genius of the People and the Republic, receives from the hands of France the Crown of the Presidency.

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Daguerreotype of a French revolutionary (1848) carrying a tricolor flag that reads: République Liberté Egalité Fraternité 22, 23, 24 février