Women, Politics and Citizenship, 1814–1852

Abstract

The early years of the nineteenth century were marked by a search for political stability after a decade of Revolutionary upheaval. The restoration of the monarchy had little public support, and a variety of political groupings — monarchists, Bonapartists and republicans — struggled for power. The period saw two further revolutions (in 1830 and 1848) and a coup d’etat in 1851 that brought the nephew of Napoleon I to power. France became an Empire again in 1852.