Louis-Philippe, faced with the difficult choice of …
Years: 1848 - 1848
February
Louis-Philippe, faced with the difficult choice of either unleashing the army, which would mean a bloodbath, or appeasing the demonstrators, replaces the hated Guizot with Count Louis-Mathieu Molé; the following day.
That evening, an army unit guarding Guizot's official residence clashes with a mob of demonstrators, some forty of whom die in the fusillade.
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- French Revolutions of 1848 and 1851
- French Revolution of 1848 (February Revolution)
- 1848, Revolutions of
