Study Guide 4 Flashcards
Why was the reign of Charles X in France so turbulent, and how did his reign end?
an attempted aristocratic restoration of power in France
ended by the Revolution of 1830 and Charles’ abdication
The July Monarchy in France
Who ruled the “July Monarchy”?
Louis Philippe
The July Monarchy in France
How did its leading official (a historian) describe this system, and what was his famous comment for those critics who complained that they were excluded from participation in the government?
Guilt: France has reached the perfection of government / “Let them get rich”
The July Monarchy in France
How did the government of King Louis Philippe and Guizot try to solve its image problem?
Tried to hook into the glamour of the growing Napoleonic legend that was sweeping France, in order to strengthen support for the current government; thus: the completion of the Arc de Triomphe begun by Napoleon; the transfer of Napoleon’s body from the island of St. Helena to a monumental sarcophagus in the Invalides in Paris.
The July Monarchy in France
Who was Napoleon II, and where did he spend most of his life? At what age did he die, and what was the cause of his death?
Son of Napoleon I and Marie Louise of Habsburg
He spent most of his life as a prisoner in Vienna / died at 21 in 1832 / tuberculosis
Who tok over the mantle of the Bonapartist faction after his death?
His uncle, Louis Napoleon Bonaparte
In several ways, French political society prefigured the great paralysis that would soon afflict European societies in the late 1800s and throughout the 1900s: for example, a fracturing into hostile political factions that could unify to OPPOSE the established government, but by their ideological nature could NOT form a new UNIFYING government. So, for example: into which mutually hostile factions were the opponents of the July Monarchy divided?
monarchists:
Orléanists – who supported Louis Philippe and his family (that is, the current dynasty in power)
vs.
Bonapartists – who wanted the return of the Bonaparte dynasty
vs. Legitimists – who wanted the return of the Bourbon family (the children of the deposed Charles X)
vs. liberals - the new liberals (who wanted to expand suffrage/voting rights) and the old liberals (who did not)
vs. Republicans who demanded the abolition of the monarchy – constitutional republicans, who wanted expansion of the capitalist economy; vs socialist republicans, who wanted the capitalist economy dismantled in favor of working class protections and rights.
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wrote what are considered two of the greatest novels of the 19th century
Stendhal
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wrote over 300 volumes, including stories such as The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers
Alexander Dumas
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Considered France’s greatest lyric poet, whose writings were set to music by composers such as Verdi and Donizetti
Victor Hugo
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author of The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables
Victor Hugo
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Painted The Raft of the Medusa, based on a true story of men struggling to survive after a horrendous shipwreck
Theodore Gericault
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The foremost Romantic painter in France, who, as a child was drowned, burned, choked, and yet, incredibly, still survived; possibly the illegitimate son of Talleyrand
Delacroix
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French painter who illustrated Goethe’s Faust and painted the famous Death of Sardanapalus which shocked and electrified viewers with its graphic brutality
Delacroix
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French Neo-classical painter whose early career included famous portraits of Napoleon
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres
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painter who was famous for his virtuosity on the violin
Ingres
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the most famous caricaturist
Honoré Daumier
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a. was known by the nickname “Monsieur Crescendo”
Gioachhino Rossini
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b. inexplicably went into retirement at the height of his success, after the production of hits famous William Tell, and spent the rest of this life hosting dinner parties
Gioacchino Rossini
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German composer from Berlin, who promoted the works of the young Richard Wagner, moved to Paris where his operas became the standard for French grand opera: sweeping in scale and lavishly produced
Meyerbeer
