HIST 2200Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Crimean War, Grand Duke, Frederick William Iv Of Prussia
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From 1848 to the unification of italy and germany. Potato blight 3 years of bad harvest and weather, potato was the main food that peasants ate, 1 million people in ireland died of hunger, rotten potatoes. In 1847 there were meetings in paris, organized by the upper class to protest against the monarchy, these meetings were later on band. People of paris started to set up barricades then the army came in and fired at the protesters, 40-50 people were killed, rumors spread very quickly. Victor hugo french writer, a passionate supporter of republicism, was burned in the pantheon. Louis-philippe became king of france after charles x was forced to abdicate, he himself was forced to abdicate and lived his life in exile in england. Lamartine was a french writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the second republic. Louis blanc vice assistant of workshops (financed by property taxes) Clubs for women start appearing in france.