Abstract

Eighteen hundred thirty-four was not an easy year for Louis-Philippe, the citizen-king, although or because it began with some decisions to enforce law and order. In February the parliament voted a law against the public selling or advertising of broadsheets; in March the political associations (the “Clubs”) saw their activities curtailed by legal restrictions. In April riots started in Lyon, shortly followed by an uprising in the popular quarters of the capital. Order was quickly restored by Government troops. How violent the repression was can be judged from one of Daumier's most famous lithographs, reporting the killing of a family in the rue Transnonain. The elections in June failed to stabilize the situation, and the Government desperately stumbled from one crisis to the next.

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