Revising 1814-48

1. When was the revolution which brought Louis Philippe to power?

2. Which journalist and printer did much to push forward Louis Philippe as a candidate following the fall of the Bourbons?

3. What was Louis Philippe's title?

4. How old was Louis Philippe when he became King?

5. At which two battles had Louis Philippe been a commander of revolutionary armies in 1792?

6. Which flag did Louis Philippe adopt as France's flag after 1830?

7. What was much freer under Louis Philippe than it had even been under the Bourbons?

8. Who did Louis Philippe force to leave France?

9. What was the qualification for voting under Louis Philippe?

10. By how much did the electorate increase under Louis Philippe?

11. Roughly what percentage of the population had the vote under Louis Philippe?

12. What happened in 1830 to the 'emigres' who had previously colonized state and army official positions?

13. Which law enforcement agency in Paris did Louis Philippe restore and work hard to support?

14. How did Louis Philippe dress?

15. What did Louis Philippe abolish in the Chamber of Peers?

16. Which power was taken from the King in 1830?

17. What could Parliament do under Louis Philippe which it couldn't do under the Bourbons?

18. When were the Bourbons first restored?

19. Who was the leader of the ultras 1814-24?

20. Who was Charles X's deeply unpopular and very religious chief minister?

21. What famous announcement in 1830 effectively ended constitutional monarchy in France and triggered the 1830 revolt?

22. Which printer and journalist did much to publicise the candidature of Louis Philippe during the 1830 revolt?

23. Which type of historian interprets Louis Philippe as a 'bourgeois monarchy' acting in bourgeois class interests?

24. Who was Louis Philippe's deeply unpopular chief minister sacrificed by LP during the early moments of the 1848 revolt?

25. Which of the following especially disliked LP's foreign policy?

26. Which later ruler of France was at Kennington Common as a special constable during the 1848 chartists unrest and had a taste for ballet dancers?

27. Which French socialist demanded the 'right to work' and called for state owned 'socialist workshops'?

28. Whose murder in 1820 led to Louis XVIII being more heavily influenced by the ultras?

29. What was the anachronistic ideology of Charles X and his supporters?

30. What is another name for the July Monarchy?